About twenty children are hospitalized free of charge per day in the neonatology unit of the Tenkodogo Regional Hospital Center, thanks to the individual nominative dispensation , one of the components of the hospital pharmacy, learned on Wednesday the AIB on site.
“We revolve around fifteen to twenty children a day who are hospitalized with us in neonatology. All these children benefit from the nominative individual dispensation (DIN)”, said on Wednesday August 23, 2023 in Tenkodogo, the head of the pediatrics department of the Regional Hospital Center (CHR) of Tenkodogo, the pediatrician Abila Dabaye to Burkinabe journalists. .
These women and men of the media carried out a field trip to observe the implementation of hospital pharmacy within the CHR of Tenkodogo.
Mr. Dabaye explained that to date, at the level of the pediatric service which includes four units, the individual nominative dispensation (DIN) is effective only in the neonatology unit (branch of medicine which deals with the new born).
The DIN, which is one of the components of hospital pharmacy, 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 patients. patients hospitalized and/or monitored on an outpatient basis by healthcare teams.
The DIN allows the patient to receive his medication in his hospital bed in the hands of health professionals, which also limits the frantic race of patients or their companions in town or in the courtyards of hospitals to honor their prescriptions.
The pediatrician pointed out that with the DIN, when you have a drug where the dosage is such that you can give the same drug to three children, you will split the drug into three and give it to three children instead of giving the medicine to one child and discard the rest. In his opinion, the DIN makes it possible to avoid waste.
“Since we started its implementation in 2021, the DIN has worked well and has reduced treatment times. When the patient arrives, depending on the urgency, depending on the type of case, we remove the products, we administer quickly,” noted Abila Dabaye.
The journalists present this Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at the neonatology unit of the pediatric department of the Regional Hospital Center (CHR) of Tenkodogo have indeed noted the care of several children. On site, Mariam Traoré has been there since Monday with her child who suffers from a breathing problem.
“We were well received. We received the appropriate care with the essential medicines. However, there are some drugs that we picked up outside the hospital. Currently, the child is doing better. It is likely that we will be released today (Wednesday), ”said Mariam Traoré at the microphone of the AIB.
Another parent Pierre Thiombiano found on the spot welcomes the implementation of the hospital pharmacy and in particular of its DIN component. “We welcome the initiative because many products are available and if we had to pay for our products outside, it would not be within everyone’s reach,” he told the AIB.
A patient also found on site, Anick Sawadogo born Guiguemdé, tells us that all the care she has received since her arrival is free. Mrs. Sawadogo arrived at the Tenkodogo Regional Hospital Center a week ago by ambulance to treat the disease. anemia.
“We were welcomed and treated well. Without lying to you, the initiative is good, even if we don’t have accompanying people next to us, we are well taken care of, ”she said.
According to the head of the hospital pharmacy of the CHR of Tenkodogo, Dr. François Sawadogo, the health establishment is currently implementing three components of the hospital pharmacy. These are DIN, Pharmaceutical Logistics and Pharmacotechnics. He assured that thanks to the DIN, the products are delivered and administered to the patients before any billing.
However, the implementation of hospital pharmacy is facing difficulties at the CHR of Tenkodogo. “The design of the hospital at the start was not intended to house such a strategy (hospital pharmacy) so we lack premises”, admits Dr. François Sawadogo.
In addition to the need for premises, there are also the difficulties linked to the shortage of certain products, the lack of equipment and the lack of personnel.
“We also lack a formal information service to educate patients and their caregivers on the importance of hospital pharmacy,” he said.
For the generalization of the hospital pharmacy to all the services of the CHR of Tenkodogo, Dr. François Sawadogo relies on the hospital managers, the authorities of the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene and of Burkina Faso.
After the CHR of Tenkodogo, the women and men of the media continued their journey of observation of the implementation of hospital pharmacy respectively at the Regional Hospital Center of Ziniaré (central Plateau region), at the Pediatric University Hospital Center Charles de Gaulles and at the Bogodogo University Hospital Center (both in Ouagadougou).
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.
Source: Burkina Information Agency