The day I was called to participate in the launching of the establishment of drug safety monitoring center of the Ethiopia Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority, I started to understand and visualize the magnitude of the problem, felt impressed and vowed to do my share of responsibility . Afterwards appreciation of…
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…
Use of medicines is associated with risks that include occurrence of adverse drug reactions, treatment failure and /or, medication error. Adverse drug events may be seen in clinical trials, but this effect becomes clearly seen only when the medicines are widely prescribed. Safe medicine use requires patient education about the proper use of medicines, adverse…
He also described that, even though post marketing surveillance is vital and untouched area in developing world, especially in Ethiopia, most health providers participation is very far from what could have been done in practice . In Debremarkos Referral Hospital pharmacy department, knowing that little input is crucial to contribute to the National drug safety…
An Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI) is any untoward medical occurrence which follows immunization and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with the usage of the vaccine. The adverse event may be any unfavorable or unintended sign, abnormal laboratory finding, symptom or disease. Reported adverse events can either be a result of the…
The importance of Adverse Drug Event Reporting (ADE) system lies in its objective which is ,the provision of drug safety data to FMHACA pharmacovigilance center .This initial information enriched by further investigation will finally enable the users to prevent the recurrence of the adverse drug event in other patients resulting in the delivery of a…
After I participated in the workshop on Pharmacovigilance which was organized by SIAPS/ USAID in collaboration with PFSA at Jimma some eight months back, I started to understand and visualize the magnitude of the problem and its importance as well. Thereafter, I became very interested and vowed to report ADE whenever I come across and…
Nigst Eleni Mohammed Memorial Hospital is situated in Hadiya zone at Hosanna town in the South Nations Nationalities and Peoples Republic. It is a known fact that drugs are important for disease prevention as well as curative purpose and hence saves life .But this indispensable remedy by its nature has unwanted adverse effect. Knowing this…
Importance of Active surveillance and Cohort Event monitoring on ARV medicines in Ethiopia The cornerstone of any pharmacovigilance system is Spontaneous reporting system which is a passive surveillance system that uses voluntary reporting of an adverse drug reaction by a health professional or a patient with the main objective being able to provide signals with…
