assessment of drugs’ donation practices in sudan评估药物的捐赠行为在苏丹.pdfVIP

Pharmacology Pharmacy, 2012, 3, 113-118 113 /10.4236/pp.2012.31017 Published Online January 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/pp) Assessment of Drugs’ Donation Practices in Sudan 1 2 3 3,4* Jacob L. Doro , Asim F. Mustafa , Ahmed S. Eldalo , Mirghani A. Yousif 1Office of the South Sudan, Sudan Central Medical Supplies, Malakal, Sudan; 2Faculty of Pharmacy, Omdurman Islamic University, Omdurman, Sudan; 3College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia; 4Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan. * Email: Mirghani53@ Received October 19th, 2011; revised November 14th, 2011; accepted December 16th, 2011 ABSTRACT The quality requirements of drug donation are different from those of other donated items. Purpose: To describe and assess key aspects of pharmaceutical donations in Sudan, the kinds of benefits and drawbacks associated with drug do- nations, and the government controlling role in the donation process. Methods: Retrospective and prospective studies were conducted in the period from April 2007 to Mar 2008 in the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and some work- ing NGOs’ data bases. Some quality aspects of donated drugs were explored. Six randomly selected nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) were examined for the relevance and some aspects of quality of donated drugs such as whether the donated drugs were listed in the National Essential Drug List, or labeled in International Nonproprietary Names, their dosage forms, the language on the package and if the donated drugs were sampled or returned ones. Results: The study showed that most of the donated drugs were relevant to NEDL normative standards. The median times from the date of arrival to the date of expiration were more than 400 days. The time prior to