Globally there are between 500 million and one billion people who have absolutely no access to essential medicines.This is according to Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who revealed recently that “health conditions that can be cured are even today killing people around the world simply because they are not in receipt of medicines that costs cents.”It is for this reason,Wholesale Jerseys China, the Minister said, that Guyana has embraced a joint partnership effort with entities the likes of the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO), the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the European Union (EU) and UNAIDS.And it was just last week that the fifth Joint Donors Mission meeting was held at Cara Lodge in the city. The meeting was streamlined by the Ministry of Health’s Supply Chain Management System (SCMS). According to Minister Ramsammy, the joint partnership in Guyana for the supply chain has set about an ambitious goal of addressing the existing health problems that many people face.This, he said, is essential in recognition of the fact that one of the fundamental health system’s strengthening pillars is to ensure that the need for access to medicine and medical supplies is met,Wholesale Jerseys China, even as he emphasised the importance of partnership in achieving such goals in the public health sector.He pointed out that not only is it important to ensure that finances are available to procure certain drugs,Cheap Wholesale NFL Jerseys, but also to ensure that safe and effective medicines and supplies are distributed. Partnership, he noted, is also a crucial factor to ensure that “we minimise expiration and ensure that people use our medicines rationally, and that we have standard treatment guidelines, and a regulatory authority. This will also help us ensure that we buy medicines at the best affordable price without giving up quality.”“Achieving such ambitious goals can sometimes prove to be a complex issue and therefore is not a simple thing like building some walls and putting medicine inside. So our partnership efforts have been even larger. This is a rare example of partners coming together in a country in a pooled effort to address national public health problems…” said Minister Ramsammy of the meeting last week.“I posit that this example should provide an impetus for further effort to improve the supply chain and to tackle other public health and other health system strengthening,” the Minister added.He revealed that the supply chain has indeed proven to be a very neglected aspect of health system strengthening around the world. However, he noted that in the last decade or so, more partners around the world have come to recognise that a good supply chain is imperative. He added that they have also recognised that the lack of access to medicine each year contributes to millions of deaths and untold suffering to people.But although it is clear that one of the primary problems fuelling this dilemma is an inadequate financing arrangement to procure enough medicine,Wholesale Football Jerseys Australia, this state of affairs, according to Minister Ramsammy, is sometimes compounded by weak management,China Jerseys, a poor system of procurement, storage and distribution,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and a lack of accountability. The problem is further compounded, he said, by poor supply chain mechanisms that lead to procurement of poor quality medicines, paying too much for the medicines, high levels of expiration and a complete lack of pharmacologic vigilance to detect adverse effects.
