Email this article ELABORATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF FUNCTIONING OF THE SYSTEM OF PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPORT OF SUDAN POPULATION
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In the article is considered the problem of support of Sudan population with available pharmaceutical production. The aim of research is an analysis of the price and assortment policy realized by the different pharmaceutical structures, determination of the level of their functions on guaranteeing the availability of medicaments, elaboration on the base of received results the arrangements on optimization of the pharmaceutical support system. It was determined that not all subjects of Sudan pharmaceutical market responsible for the pharmaceutical support cope with such problems at the proper level. Thus in the private drugstores, in the net drugstores of the Ministry of defense «Alia» and in drugstores of the health insurance system the prices of medicament exceed the recommended ones in more than 2 times, an assortment also does not corresponds to both internal and international requirements. The received results indicate the unreasonable use of budget means by the separate state structures, the negative tendencies in the system of guaranteeing the availability of pharmaceutical help.
It was established that the biggest suppliers of the medicaments in Sudan, excluding the state Centre of medicament support CMS cannot ensure the system of health protection with medicaments of the proper quality, assortment and the price rate.
There were elaborated the organizational-economic approaches to optimization of the structure of medical support of Sudan that include the change of the flows of medicaments distribution. There was offered the structure that unites all inflows in the aforesaid CMS and then distributes resources according to the needs of organizations and regions.
Introduction of the offered structures will allow improve the system of purchase and distribution of medicaments, make it transparent. The result of change will be the rise of physical and economic availability of medicaments, widening of assortment, decrease of the price of preparations, significant economy of budget resources.
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