Uganda: NMS Gets Quicker, Modern Ways of Distributing Drugs

13 September 2009

Kampala — The last few weeks have been gratifying for the people at National Medical Stores (NMS). First, we delivered medicines to the two National Referral Hospitals - Mulago and Butabika - the first time in three years. Secondly, Parliament handed NMS a bigger mandate. Thirdly, the stores in Entebbe have been undergoing transformation.

Mulago and Butabika hospitals stopped buying drugs from NMS three years ago, reportedly because NMS lacked most of the drugs they needed. This was probably true, but that was then. So when Mulago recently sent in their order for supplies worth sh300m, we were eager to show that indeed this is a new NMS. We thus promptly delivered items worth sh180m, for a start. We could have supplied all the sh300m drugs at once, but Mulago had not sent in their requirements beforehand.

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