Poster 7

Medicine Wastage: An assessment of post implementation of electronic logistics management information system at Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (47)

The wastage of medicines has been a perpetual problem at Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (LMUTH) for the past three decades. The wastage has been mainly in form of disposal of expired medicines. The electronic Logistics Management Information System (eLMIS) has been implemented since 2015, in anticipation to revolutionary reduce wastage and enhance cost-effective system of health data management that ensures greater commodity security and better health outcomes for the people for the consumers. Hence, this research assessed whether the eLMIS has been effective to reduce the wastage of medicines between 2014 and 2018 at Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka in District of Zambia.

Isaac Sichone¹, Martha Chuulu²

¹Catholic Relief Services, ²Levy Mwanawasa Medical University

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