TY - JOUR
AU - Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III, Don
AU - Elhadi, Yasir Ahmed Mohammed
AU - Modber, Mohamed AbdulKareem Adam
AU - Musa, Mohamed Babiker
AU - Mohammed, Salma Elmukashfi Eltahir
AU - Hassan, Khlood Fathi
AU - Dafallah, Alaa
AU - Lin, Xu
AU - Ahmadi, Attaullah
AU - Adeyemi, Sylvester
AU - Ekpenyong, Aniekan
AU - Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo
PY - 2020
DA - November
TI - Drug shortage crisis in Sudan in times of COVID-19
JO - Public Health in Practice
VL - 1
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100060
AB - Sudan is witnessing severe drugs, medicines, and medical supplies shortages, which present a major impediment to the provision of emergency healthcare services. Drug insecurity in Sudan is as a result of several accumulated factors, primarily due to worsening economic condition, inappropriate pricing policy, privatization of the pharmaceutical sector, poor manufacturing and weak weak weregulatory system. These could threaten patient health through replacement of highly efficacious medicines with less effective alternatives and by impacting the scheduling of urgent medical operations and procedures. Drug and medicine shortages are of catastrophic impact especially amid the current epidemic of COVID-19 where these are salient needs. Efforts should be quickly directed to ensure immediate access to pharmaceutical products and other essential health commodities. Effective policies on drug importation, production, pricing, and distribution should be established to avoid the consequences of an impending crisis.
PB - Elsevier
UR - https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/327492/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER