Some evidence of availability of drugs from the basic medication scheme (Table 6) in primary health services has been documented [ 34].
In Mexico, public health services are obliged to provide all prescribed medications to patients if included in the basic medication scheme (a list of generic drugs).
After facility strengthening, including training and support to management, equipment levels remained high – but maintaining supply of even the most basic medications was a challenge, with less than 40% of health facilities reporting no stock-outs (13).
While equipment levels remained high after initial improvement efforts, maintaining supply of even the most basic medications was a challenge, with less than 40% of health facilities reporting no stock-outs.
There may well be considerable room for improvement in provider skills and medical understanding, adherence to standard protocols and interventions, prevention measures, maintenance of adequate supplies of basic medications and materials, procedures for sustained monitoring and follow-up, coordination and referral mechanisms, and management and information systems.
Wednesday's demonstration included a notable number of elderly people who have been particularly impacted by the near impossibility of obtaining even basic medications within the wider crisis.
A policy of stripping asylum seekers of basic medications when they arrived at off-shore detention centres caused a three-year-old girl to suffer repeated seizures, Sanggaran said.
Obsolete medical equipment further constrain their diagnostic capabilities, and lack of basic medications and supplies impedes their treatment strategies.
3. Resources: Respondents employed at government managed health facilities, especially the ones located in the rural areas, identified lack of resources as a critical factor that impedes their performance for providing standard patient care such as irregular supply of basic medications, meagre laboratory and diagnostic facilities and inadequate temperature control in the health facilities.
After revising, the List should meet the most basic medication needs of primary health care institutions in terms of both the category and the number of the medicines.
