The Permanent Secretary to the ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dr Dr Mpoki Ulisubisya.
The ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Dr
Mpoki Ulisubisya, said in Dar es Salaam the plan would ensure
sustainable availability and access to affordable, quality, safe and
efficacious essential medicine, vaccines and medical supplies in the
country.
“Today we launched new NPAP and tool kit
for best practices in medicines management and good governance in
council health facilities agenda. The plan would help in the whole
programme of planning how to access medicines used in the country,” he
said.
He said the plan also helps to know the
cost of medicine from the medical Stores Department, the type of
medicines and their durability. “The NPAP plan would help to monitor the
distribution, storage and importation of medicine to all councils in
the country,” he emphasized.
He further said that the NPAP is
providing community with quality pharmaceutical services including
sustained access to quality-assured essential medicines and health
technologies.
He called upon development partners to
continue providing the pharmaceutical sector with the needed technical
and moral support to achieve optimum performance.
The Permanent Secretary said that most
of the NPAP activities would apply in all councils in the country for
ensuring quality pharmaceutical services. He said that NPAP 2020 would
also promote an enabling environment for Big Results Now (BRN) in the
health sector in the country.
Dr Ulisubisya explained that issues
related to health technology and infrastructure, focusing mainly on
selection and maintenance of medical equipment, has been incorporated in
NPAP 2020.
The five-year plan was developed by a
national task team supported by three external consultants who
facilitated the situational analysis through a rigorous desk review,
interviews with key stakeholders, capture of current reforms and
initiatives, among others.
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