This study aims to find out how the implementation of internal inventory control in medicine (pharmaceutical) section Dumai City General Hospital which is located on Jalan Tanjung Jati No 4. Regional Hospital. uses descriptive analysis results interviews with specified sources, field observations and documentation. Primary data were obtained from direct observations. While secondary documents r...

Shortages of medicines and vaccines have been reported in countries of all income levels in recent years. Shortages can result from one or multiple causes, including shortages of raw materials, manufacturing capacity problems, industry consolidation, marketing practices, and procurement and supply chain management. Existing approaches to mitigate shortages include advance notice systems managed...

BACKGROUND Pay for performance schemes are increasingly being implemented in low income countries to improve health service coverage and quality. This paper describes the context within which a pay for performance programme was introduced in Tanzania and discusses the potential for pay for performance to address health system constraints to meeting targets. METHOD 40 in-depth interviews and f...

Global health scholarship has failed to adequately consider the “BRIC” cluster of nations—Brazil, Russia, India and China—particularly in the aggregate. An article search with the keywords “BRIC” and “public health” yields just one publication. But these countries have a unique role to play in the global health enterprise by addressing global health problems as they build their own health syste...

Our recent issue on “Equipment for eye care” (number 73, September 2010) addressed the importance of equipment in the delivery of eye care and covered maintenance, repair, training, purchasing, and donations. This issue (number 76) addresses similar concerns around surgical instruments and consumables. For an eye unit to function, instruments must be carefully managed so that they remain in goo...

the most representative trade associations in this country whose members are concerned in the distribution of all kinds of drugs, chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations which are imported into India from the United Kingdom and the United States of America which are the only sources of supply for the Indian market under the present circumstances of war. For some time past on account of the fr...

of the opening juyces to it, it will be the better, then if you apply a Virginia Tobacco leaf to the place, you shall find it an incomparable Remedy'. The two New York documents of 1677 show to a considerable degree the medicines used by practitioners of the day. There can be little doubt that apothecary's supplies were ordered, as in the case of Dr. De Hart, from London. Indeed, if satisfied, ...

BACKGROUND The provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being rolled out across South Africa. Little evidence exists on the cost of running clinics for ART provision. OBJECTIVES To determine the cost per patient-month enrolled in an ART programme and per patient-visit for a dedicated, public-sector ART clinic in a South African peri-urban setting in 2004/05 and 2005/06, as the clinic move...

Free healthcare obviously works when a partner from abroad supplies a health centre or a health district with medicines and funding on a regular basis, provides medical, administrative and managerial training, and gives incentive bonuses and daily subsistence allowances to staff. The experiments by three international NGO in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have all been success stories. But withdr...

This study aims to find out how the implementation of internal inventory control in medicine (pharmaceutical) section Dumai City General Hospital which is located on Jalan Tanjung Jati No 4. Regional Hospital. uses descriptive analysis results interviews with specified sources, field observations and documentation. Primary data were obtained from direct observations. While secondary documents r...