Availability of key drugs in public health facilities and district warehouses

• The median availability of the basket of key drugs in public health facilities and district warehouses was found to be 75% and 55% respectively

• Almost half (47%) of the facilities were found to have greater than 75% availability of the basket of key drugs; however 20% of the facilities had less than 50% availability, with 1 in 20 facilities having only 20%

• There was a wide variation of availability between the district warehouses - ranging from 15% to 75 % availability³.

³ Following decentralization of health services, district warehouses ceased to be the major storage points for the district health services and today largely act as ‘transit stores’ for the Health Sub-Districts and other peripheral health units.