Abstract
The study was performed in the central store of medicines ,and five selected hospitals in blue nile state during the year 2007.
Objectives:
To access accessibility , rational use of free medicines , and the efficiency of dispensing limitations for the first twenty-four hours practices.
Methods:
The study was carried using level I and level II indicators of the WHO for monitoring and assessment the pharmaceutical sector.
Results:
The study showed sustainable provision of free medical care in urban hospitals while interrupted in rural ones. In central store and urban pharmacies, on average 92% of the fifty-one free medicines monitored were available, with good storage quality and all drugs prescribed by the physician were dispensed by the urban pharmacy, while the stock-out duration was around one month on average in the central store.