Table 2.
NSC users’ positions and roles in monitoring medicines availability.
| Position | Stock-Out Management (n = 86) | Reporting Medicines Availability Status to Seniors (n = 83) | Distribute Information Obtained from NSC (n = 71) | Reporting Compliance Status to Seniors (n = 63) | Other (n = 14) |
Total (n = 317) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District/sub-district pharmacist |
37 (43.0%) | 35 (42.2%) | 32 (45.1%) | 34 (54.0%) | 0 | 138 (43.5%) |
| Support partner | 12 (14.0%) | 10 (12.1%) | 12 (17.0%) | 8 (12.7%) | 11 (78.6%) | 53 (16.7%) |
| Provincial pharmacist | 11 (12.8%) | 11 (13.3%) | 13 (18.3%) | 9 (14.3%) | 1 (7.1%) | 45 (14.2%) |
| Hospital pharmacist | 12 (14.0%) | 12 (14.5%) | 6 (8.5%) | 7 (11.1%) | 0 | 37 (11.7%) |
| Depot pharmacist | 7 (8.1%) | 5 (6.0%) | 1 (1.4%) | 1 (1.6%) | 0 | 14 (4.4%) |
| Head of pharmaceutical services | 3 (3.5%) | 3 (3.6%) | 3 (4.2%) | 2 (3.2%) | 0 | 11 (3.5%) |
| Information technology support | 1 (1.2%) | 3 (3.6%) | 3 (4.2%) | 2 (3.2%) | 0 | 9 (2.8%) |
| National pharmaceutical policy specialist | 1 (1.2%) | 1 (1.2%) | 1 (1.4%) | 0 | 0 | 3 (1.0%) |
| Contract manager | 1 (1.1%) | 1 (1.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.6%) |
| Programme manager | 1 (1.2%) | 1 (1.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.6%) |
| Administrator | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (7.1%) | 1 (0.3%) |
| Chief director | 0 | 1 (1.2%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.3%) |
| Director of affordable medicines directorate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (7.1%) | 1 (0.3%) |