How NMS is Using Technology to Combat Medication Stealing in Public Hospitals

Ten years ago, in-charges of health facilities would make paper-based orders to National Medical Stores (NMS) for medicine deliveries.  Quite often, mistakes would happen in making orders and sometimes, these papers would get lost.  Moreso, paper-based work was so time-consuming and laborious.  In 2019, NMS partnered with USAID to digitize the health supply chain known as Enterprise Resource planning (ERP) system dubbed NMS+.   This digitalises the day to day business of procuring, accounting and ordering or medicines from NMS.  The chairperson of the health Committee of parliament, Dr Charles Ayume has since commended NMS+, saying “it allows health facilities to…