The University Hospital Center (CHU) of Bogodogo records around 12,000 free deliveries in the year with around 35% caesareans thanks to the implementation of the hospital pharmacy, learned Friday, the AIB on site in Ouagadougou.
“Here we carry out around 12,000 deliveries in the year with around 35% caesarean section and all of this is free”, indicated on Friday August 25, 2023 to Burkinabe journalists, the doctor stationed at the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Bogodogo and former Minister of Health, Dr Charlemagne Ouédraogo.
“We are not giving additional prescriptions here so that women go to pharmacies to pick up the products because this will still be wasted time and risk of death for patients”, added the Minister of Health in January 2021 to the coup. of State of January 2022Dr. Charlemagne Ouédraogo was speaking during a field trip by women and men from the media to observe the implementation of hospital pharmacy within the Bogodogo University Hospital Center.
He informed that the hospital pharmacy works 24 hours a day within the CHU of Bogodogo. “The midwives regularly make their rounds of duty and on call here, 24 hours a day all year round”.
In the hospital pharmacy of the maternity hospital of the university hospital of Bogodogo, the journalists noted, a ballet of comings and goings of health workers. The latter come to present liaison sheets to the midwives on which the drugs prescribed by the doctors are mentioned.
When the drug is available, the midwife notes the quantity and then fills in the various information necessary for the pharmacist and for the financial follow-up of the expenditure and she gives the products mentioned to the health worker who leaves for the administration of the drugs. patient care.
Dr. Charlemagne Ouédraogo told journalists that these liaison sheets are essential and are followed by the various managers of the Bogodogo University Hospital, the coordinator of the care unit and the various midwives responsible for the sub-sections of the service.
In the hospital pharmacy of the Bogodogo University Hospital maternity hospital, journalists noticed several quantities of drugs stored on a table. “These are drugs that we give for the treatment of patients in the context of hospital pharmacy,” Dr. Ouédraogo tells us.
He clarified that it is the drugs that come out as quickly as possible, which are stored on the table. “The rest is in the cupboards and in the boxes and as and when needed, we predispose them on the table and the midwife delivers the products to the health worker who has come or to the parent. who came to liaise between our hospital pharmacy and the patient’s bed to deliver the drugs so that we could provide care to the sick,” he told journalists.
The former minister relativizes the term free products. “When we give for free, it’s not free, it’s the taxpayer who pays through his civic behavior. It’s a way of distributing the fruits of economic growth to everyone,” he clarifies.
The hospital pharmacy is a pharmacy for internal use (PUI) which is exercised within a public or private hospital care establishment for the benefit of the patients who are hospitalized there and followed on an outpatient basis.
Its flagship component is bedside dispensing. It is a pharmaceutical act consisting of the analysis of an individual medical prescription and the delivery of individual doses of drugs and other health products in nominative devices ready to be administered to hospitalized patients and / or outpatient follow-up. by healthcare teams.
According to the head of the hospital pharmacy department of the Bogodogo University Hospital Center, pharmacist and clinician Zakary Kafando, dispensing at the patient’s bedside is effective in all clinical departments of the hospital.
He said that for the dispensation at the patient’s bedside, the University Hospital of Bogodogo has defined three methods of dispensing the drug. The first modality is global delivery dispensation (DDG), the second modality is individual delivery dispensation (IDD), and the third modality is retrocession.
The first modality consists in making the medicine available at the service level by supplying a medicine cabinet, on the basis of a list predefined by the service, commonly called the therapeutic booklet.
The second modality consists in delivering the drug to hospitalized patients after the preparation of the individual and nominative doses which is done at the level of the hospital pharmacy.
The third modality called retrocession concerns patients followed on an outpatient basis. There is the ordinary retrocession for ordinary drugs and the ARV retrocession which concerns the dispensing of antiretrovirals.
In the opinion of pharmacist and clinician Zakary Kafando, hospital pharmacy and particularly its flagship component, dispensing at the patient’s bedside, has many advantages.
“In terms of advantages, it should be noted that patient security is achieved through shorter treatment initiation times, rationalization of prescriptions and reduction in the cost of treatment for the patient and also expenses for the hospital” , he quoted.
The implementation of the dispensation at the patient’s bedside nevertheless encounters three major difficulties which are the insufficiency of human resources, the shortage of drugs and the cumbersomeness of the procedures, noted the head of the hospital pharmacy department.
“We find that the procedures are cumbersome. We must therefore try to lighten the procedures to enable us to make health products permanently available to the great benefit and happiness of patients,” he concluded.
The Bogodogo University Hospital Center was the last stage of the field trip to observe the implementation of hospital pharmacy by the women and men of the media.
The field trip took the women and men of the media respectively to the regional hospitals of Tenkodogo (Centre Est region) and Ziniaré (central Plateau region), to the Charles de Gaulles Pediatric University Hospital Center and to the Bogodogo University Hospital Center (all two in Ouagadougou).
Source: Burkina Information Agency