The Health Minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng announced yesterday 23rd January 2019 while receiving medical supplies from the Indian government at the National Medical Store in Entebbe that the government is to introduce a digital way to follow up the supply of medicines to health facilities.
Aceng intimated that that the drugs have been being stolen during the supply chain and with this digital system, the drugs leaving the stores will be entered in a system and there will be suitable monitoring as they are being dispensed.
She said “We are working together with the US government; we are introducing a tracking tool and it will be in all our facilities not later than June, where everything that is dispensed out to the patients will automatically be entered into the digital system and we will be able to monitor the way facilities distribute those drugs in order to avoid spillage”
Mr Shri Ravi Shankar, the Indian High Commissioner to Uganda who was in attendance explained that the drugs were packaged in 11 containers that cost $1.6million.He further applauded the Ugandan Government initiative of setting up a local drug manufacturing factories and pledged support by the Indian government.
