Table 3. Essential medicines availability.
Green—always in stock, yellow—occasional stockouts, red—frequent stockouts, black—never stocked.
| Essential Medications | Dhaka Bangladesh |
Matlab Bangladesh |
Civil Pakistan | Kilifi Kenya |
Mbagathi Kenya |
Migori Kenya |
Mulago Uganda |
QECH Malawi |
Banfora Burkina Faso |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antibiotics | |||||||||
| Ampicillin/Benzyl penicillin | |||||||||
| Gentamicin | |||||||||
| Ceftriaxone | |||||||||
| Flucloxacillin | |||||||||
| Macrolide | |||||||||
| Ciprofloxacin | |||||||||
| 1st line antiretrovirals | |||||||||
| 1st line antituberculosis drugs | |||||||||
| Oral antimalariala | |||||||||
| Injectable antimalariala | |||||||||
| Emergency Medicines | |||||||||
| Adrenaline | |||||||||
| Atropine | |||||||||
| Intravenous or rectal short acting anti-convulsants | |||||||||
| Intravenous or oral phenobarbitol or phenytoin | |||||||||
| Intravenous fluids | |||||||||
| Isotonic fluids | |||||||||
| Dextrose 5% or 10% | |||||||||
| Dextrose (≥25%) | |||||||||
| Oral rehydration solution (ORS) | |||||||||
| Standard ORS | |||||||||
| ReSoMal | |||||||||
| Nutritional Therapeutics | |||||||||
| Milk formula 75 (F-75b) | |||||||||
| Milk formula 100 (F-100b) | |||||||||
| Ready-to-use therapeutic food | |||||||||
| Ready-to-use supplementary food |
aOral: artemisinin-based combination therapies, Injectable: artensunate, artemether, quinine.
bMilk suji equivalent used in Dhaka and Matlab hospitals