By: Mukhtar Yahaya Shehu
As part of its efforts to integrate all free medical programs, Kano State Drugs and Medical Consumables Supply Agency has organized a sensitization workshop for essential drug officers from the 44 local government areas on the commencement of last mile delivery of family planning commodities.
Declaring the workshop opened, Pharm. Gali Sule, the Director-General of DMCSA, said the meeting is part of the agency’s broader plan to integrate Essential Medicines and all Public Health Commodities on Warehousing, Distribution, and Last Mile Visibility as a global best practices.
In a statement signed by information officer DMCSA Faruk Isa Musa Pharm. Sule said the major aim of this ambitious harmonization project, which will commence next week, is that the facilities will get their DRF commodities at the same time with other free public health supplies , such as maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), family planning, malaria, tuberculosis, among others.
Highlighting the potential efficiency and cost-effectiveness, the Director-General noted that under this project, the commodities will be delivered to facilities free of charge, adding that the initiative will go in a long way in improving the family health, especially that of maternal, neonatal, and the children.
Speaking on the objectives of the meeting, Malam Bello Muhammad Dandago, the Focal Person of State Sustainable Health Commodity Supply System (SHCSS) Committee in-charge of Primary Health Care, explained that the Essential Drug Officers of the 44 local government areas were chosen for the sensitization being the key stakeholders of last mile delivery of family planning commodities.
According to him, the meeting, funded by the Gates Foundation and supported by Capacity for Sustainable Development, was organized to prepare the Essential Drug Officers on how to properly manage the vital aspects of the project, including warehousing centralization, acquiring contact details of heads of pharmacies, among others.
