Assessment Of Integrated Pharmaceutical Logistics System (ipls) In Public Health Facilities At East Wollega Zone

Different efforts have been made to implement and build strong pharmaceuticals supply chainrnmanagement system in the country through creating integrated pharmaceutical logistics system.rnThere was significant improvement in health commodity logistics system management. However,rnthe system was not yet strong enough to the expected level due to different reasons. Therefore, thernobjective of this investigation was to provide information on the level of Integrated PharmaceuticalrnLogistic System (IPLS) implementation in East Wollega public health facilities using crosssectionalrndescriptive study. In this study, all East Wollega Health facilities were selected andrnquantitative data collection tool called ‘Logistics Indicators Assessment Tool (LIAT)’ wasrnadministered to different service delivery Points (SDPs) such as Hospitals, AntiretroviralrnTreatment (ART) health centers, Prevention Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) only healthrncenters and Non-ART and Non-PMTCT health centers. As a result, health professionals who werernresponsible in handling health commodities at SDPs stores were the main respondents of thisrnassessment. The sample size was 66 (23 ART sites, 23 Non-ART-Non-PMTCT sites and 20 PMTCTrnsites’) store keepers working at these SDPs. At these SDPs using Logistics ManagementrnInformation System (LMIS) formats the stock status of selected tracer drugs from ART, Malaria,rnRPH and TB program was assessed by using 36 tracer drugs selected by United States Agency forrnInternational development(USAID)Ethiopia from Malaria, family planning, TB and HIV/AIDSrnprograms (2016). Finally, the gathered data from these SDPs were reconciled and finally analyzedrnusing SPSS version 16 according to their service type differently and found that the prevalence ofrnIPLS Implementation was 32.8%.

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