Mozambique is building new drug warehouses to improve distribution

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Mozambique is building new drug warehouses to improve distribution

5:28 CAT | 02 Feb 2021

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The Ministry of Health (MISAU) is building intermediate medicine warehouses across the country to improve response times in the distribution of drugs, an official source announced on Monday.

“We are building intermediate warehouses across the country, strategically located in order to respond from one location to another within 48 hours,” João Grachane, head of the Planning and Quantification Department at the Medicines Centre, told Radio Mozambique today. Response currently takes four to five days.

According to Grachane, three warehouses have already been built in Zambézia province, in central Mozambique, and one in Inhambane, in the south, the latter already in operation.

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The worsening spread of Covid-19 has highlighted the need to improve the logistics chain.

Figures released yesterday by MISAU show that, in January alone, there were more new Covid-19 cases, more hospitalisations and more deaths from Covid-19 than in the whole of 2020.

The rise in Covid numbers in the country has increased pressure on health services, mainly due to the rise in hospitalisations of patients already in a serious condition.

Source: Lusa