During the past seven decades, antimicrobial medicines have saved millions of lives, substantially reduced the burden of diseases that were previously widespread, improved the quality of life, and helped increase life expectancy. However, in the recent past, the emergence and spread of AMR in several microorganisms has rendered the management of many infectious diseases difficult.…
Irrational use of drugs has been one of the major problems in the Ethiopian health care system for a long time. Among the strategies devised to improve the situation, Medicine, Food and Healthcare Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA) of Ethiopia, was involved in the preparation and distribution of Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) for the different…
Irrational use of drugs has been one of the major problems in the Ethiopian health care system for a long time. Among the strategies devised to improve the situation, Medicine, Food and Healthcare Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA) of Ethiopia, was involved in the preparation and distribution of Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) for the different…
Irrational use of drugs has been one of the major problems in the Ethiopian health care system for a long time. Among the strategies devised to improve the situation, Medicine, Food and Healthcare Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA) of Ethiopia, was involved in the preparation and distribution of Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) for the different…
Proper medicines use including rational prescribing, rational despensing and proper administration of medicines by the patient’s is important in the health of the public. Defining the patient’s problems, setting therapuetic objectives and proper comuniction with patients promots rational use of medicines which eventually help to reduces harm to the health of each indivuduals and the…
Medications are given to treat a specific disease and as they do so they can result in unwanted effects, one of which is adverse drug reaction. These reactions manifest in different forms. It is the duty of the health professionals to identify and report such events to the responsible body so that the proper measures…
The only thing that remains between an adverse drug reaction observed in a drug treatment and the help that the user of the drug gets as a result is the will and commitment of the health provider to report the situation to the regulatory authority. There are many health providers who have been reporting an…
Awareness creation trainings were provided to 123 health care providers of 4 health centers of Yeka sub city ,Addis Ababa on pharmacovigilance .The trainings were provided to the participants of Aware Health Center (HC), Ankorcha HC, Korea Zemachoch HC, Wereda 11 HC from November 12/2015 until December 24/2015 . A Presentation that contains topics on…
Face to a Face discussion on Pharmacovigilance was carried out at 5 Health Centers in Addis Ababa by the Ethiopian Food, Medicine and Healthcare Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA) with the technical support from MSH/SIAPS. Those present in the half day programmes were a total of 125 health providers (2 Physicians, 12 Health officers,86 Clinical…
Medication error is one of the main causes of drug related injury or Adverse drug event. It is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional…
