Objective
- To establish resilient pharmaceutical supply chain management
- To ensure proper medical device management system
- To establish responsive emergency supply chain management
- To strengthen pharmacy service in health facilities
- To integrate traditional medicine with modern medicine
Vision
- To ensure the sustainable supply of quality-assured and affordable pharmaceutical and medical equipment; ensure rational use of medicines; and integrate traditional medicine and modern medicine
Mission
- To establish resilient pharmaceutical and medical device supply chain management and implement good pharmacy practice
Role and responsibility
- Develop and oversee the successful implementation of Pharmaceutical and medical devices Sector policy, strategy, roadmap, guidelines, protocols, and SOPs
- Develop, regularly update and oversee the implementation of Drug policy, Standard Treatment Guideline, National Essential medicine and medical devise list
- Lead the all health program supply chain management
- Lead, support, coordinate and monitor the implementation of pharmacy service activities (Auditable Pharmaceutical Transaction and services, clinical pharmacy service, model community pharmacy, Drug information service, sterile and non-sterile compounding services)
- Promote rational drug use and lead the prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance
- Support regional health bureaus and health facilities to conduct annual quantification exercises
- Ensure the availability of essential medicines, supplies, and reagents in health facilities
- Promote local pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing
- Strengthen public private partnership in pharmaceutical, medical device as well as traditional medicines.
- Provide capacity building for professionals from regional health bureaus and health facilities on pharmacy service, traditional medicine, supply chain and medical device management.
- Work and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to improve access and quality of pharmaceutical and medical devices, and also for quick response during emergency
- Coordinate assessments on pharmaceutical supply chain, pharmacy service, antimicrobial resistance, traditional medicine practice, and medical device management in collaboration with universities and partners.
- Scale up and monitor the installation and maintenance of oxygen plants
- Strengthen pharmaceutical and Medical equipment management information systems to ensure end to end data visibility at all levels
- Oversees and follow-up planning, need assessment, budgeting, procurement, distribution, installation, utilization, maintenance, decommissioning, and disposal of medical devices.
- Facilitate establishment of medical devices centre of excellence, incubation platform and refurbishment centres
- Promote the integration of traditional and modern medicine
- Lead/coordinate pharmaceutical and medical device, AMR and Traditional medicines national advisory forums