Burkina: The hospital pharmacy aims to optimize patient care (SG Ministry of Health)
The implementation of hospital pharmacy, particularly in its individual nominative dispensation component at the patient’s bedside, aims to optimize patient care through effective management “, said indicated Tuesday in Ouagadougou, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene Dr Estelle Dabiré née Dembélé.
The Secretary General of the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene Dr Estelle Dabiré née Dembélé chaired on Tuesday August 22, 2023 in Ouagadougou, the field trip to observe the implementation of hospital pharmacy in Tenkodogo, Ziniaré and Ouagadougou with women and men of the media.
She declared that “the implementation of hospital pharmacy, particularly in its component Nominative individual dispensing (DIN) at the patient’s bed, aims to optimize patient care through effective management and rationalization of medical prescription in a hospital environment”.
According to her, the Nominative Individual Dispensation (DIN) “aims to secure drug care by ensuring the availability of quality health products, quality care with rapid care and a reduction in the cost of providing inpatient care in that patients only pay for the products they consume”.
In this approach, Ms. Dabiré née Dembélé explained that “patients leave their hospitalization without a carton of unused medication” and that DIN is “a strategy that relieves the patient, his family circle or his companions”.
The DIN allows the patient to receive “his medication in his hospital bed in the hands of health professionals, which also limits the frantic race of patients or their companions in town or in hospital courtyards, in pharmacies to honor their ordinances”, rejoiced the general secretary.
“Implementing nominative individual dispensing at the patient’s bedside not only makes it possible to rationalize prescriptions and to have better compliance with treatment by patients, but also to make care more diligent,” he added. she noted.
According to the director general of access to health products at the level of the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene Dr Zakaria Yabré, a comparative study of the cost of a PEC patient by dispensing at the patient’s bedside and dispensing ordinary, found that the former is less expensive.
In ordinary dispensation mode, 80% of each of the patients spent between 40,000 and 80,000 FCFA.
In bedside dispensing mode, the total cost of pharmaceutical inputs consumed during the stay ranged from 1,000 to 10,000 CFA francs in 66.15% of patients; in 29.23% of the patients, their expenditure was of the order of 10,000 to 20,000 FCFA.
Since 1998, the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene has multiplied its efforts to develop hospital pharmacy in all its essential components.
The essential components of hospital pharmacy are as follows, the management of supplies and stocks of health products, clinical pharmacy, magistral and hospital preparations, sterilization and hospital hygiene, pharmacovigilance and nominative individual dispensing in bed of the patient.
Following the launch, the women and men of the media went to the field, particularly to the regional hospitals of Tenkodogo (Centre-Est region) and Ziniaré (Central Plateau region) to observe the implementation of the hospital pharmacy.
They also went to the Charles de Gaulles Pediatric University Hospital Center and the Bogodogo University Hospital Center, both in Ouagadougou for the same exercise.
Source: Burkina Information Agency