WAKISO-The National Medical Stores [NMS], an agency that procures and distributes medicines and other medical supplies to public hospitals and health centres will relocate its head office to Kanjjansi, Wakiso district where they have a new warehouse and office complex.
This is after President Yoweri Museveni yesterday commissioned the facility that cost about Shs 70 billion.
Moses Kamabare, the General Manager of NMS, said the complex and warehouse project was initially expected to be completed in 20 months from July 2017 but was delayed due to the negative impact of COVID-19.
Kamabare said the new warehouse and offices are phase one of the project that sits on 10 acres of land, adding that another 13 acres in the neighbourhood are earmarked for further expansion of the pharmaceutical warehouse.
NMS currently supplies essential medicines and supplies to over 3,000 public health facilities at the regional, district, and sub-county levels.
Kamabare however appealed to Museveni for more funding for the agency and the timely release of operational funds.
The agency spends over Shs 200bln annually in the procurement and distribution of essential medicines and health supplies.
On his part, Museveni pledged to support NMS as it manages the distribution of drugs and other medical supplies.
The president lauded NMS, Ministry of Health officials, Global Fund, and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation [GAVI] for ensuring the completion of the new warehouse and office complex.
However, Museveni noted that the facility was built in a swamp. “This was a swamp definitely…but you don’t have to worry. We have told people who have built structures…to migrate out of the wetlands.”
According to the Minister of Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the NMS warehouse in Entebbe will be designated to store medicines and vaccines for emergencies like Ebola, and COVID-19.
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