PV Newsletter V1 ISSUE 2 June 2011

According to a recent survey carried out by the Food Medicine and Health Care Authority (FMHACA) and MSH/SPS, health providers practice with Adverse drug Reaction (ADR) showed that ( 225, 56.25%) of the participants had encounter with an ADR in their practice during the last 12 months in their day today activities but out of the total of ADRs encountered only 5% was reported to FMHACA. In order to overcome this challenge ,One important intervention is to train health providers with the right knowledge about the ADR monitoring system in the country and help them see how much their involvement in this important system means towards the betterment of the quality of health care they are giving. This knowledge and involvement would be fruitful when it is combined with a constant commitment and follow up from the management in a health facility. One good example of this the improved awareness and participation of a Health center by the Name Beletshachew which is found in Addis Ababa around Lideta. The Medical director of the health center Ato Solomon is so keen on providing drug safety information to the Authority and encouraged and reminded his colleagues to report that 2 health providers from the TB Clinic& Pharmacy department (Tigest Getachew &Senait Mitiku)had reported an observed Adverse Drug Reaction. Accordingly ,FMHACA has acknowledged the reporters through an acknowledgment package and has entered the reported ADR into its data base for further analysis as well as shared the drug safety information to the world through the use of the WHO database vigibase