The tender processes at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre have been dogged by bureaucracies, which have resulted in problems of medicine stock-outs at major hospitals in the country affecting the quality of healthcare.
The problem of missing drugs is more pronounced at the University Central Hospital of Kigali (CHUK), a major referral hospital with 560 beds that gets an average of 500 outpatients daily.
The problem was raised by the Auditor-General’s office, which reported that last year 110 drugs and medical items were out of stock at the hospital and restocking them took between 45 to 504 days. By the end of the year, the hospital had failed to restock 52 drugs and laboratory reagents.
Martin Nyundo, head of clinical services at CHUK, said this problem usually affects patients who have been referred to the hospital from the districts. FULL STORY
