E-DRUG: Zambia adds co-packaged ORS and zinc to their Essential Medicines List
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The final Steering & Learning Group Meeting for the KYTS Programme was held
in Lusaka on 6-Sep-18. The meeting was chaired by the Permanent Secretary
of the Ministry of Health, Dr Kennedy Malama.
At this meeting Dr Malama confirmed that the Ministry of Health, through
their Formulary Committee, had added co-packaged ORS and Zinc to the Zambia
Essential Medicines List (EML). This is a very progressive move. To our
knowledge only four other countries have done this so far - Ghana, Kenya,
Senegal and Vietnam - and co-packaged ORS and zinc is not yet on the WHO
Model Essential Medicines List (although we are working with others on
this).
More details are here:
http://www.colalife.org/2018/09/27/zambia-adds-co-packaged-ors-and-zinc-to-essential-medicines-list/
Regards
Simon
Simon Berry
Zambia
Simon Berry <simon@colalife.org>