CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ OUR ACCESS PRINCIPLES ’ 41 remain vital , another area has been developing its awareness and diagnosis capabilities in order to support health practitioners worldwide through essential training . This will enable communities to interpret signs and symptoms in order to seek medical support when required . Strengthening its supply chain , particularly for interventions around NCDs which require chronic and steady treatment and availability at local dispensaries has remained vital , where proper forecasting and availability of treatments on a cont- inuous basis has been a key focal point under the initiative .
“ What we started almost three years ago in Kenya where we have the first Novartis Access product , is the establishment of Management Scientists for our supply chains . This focuses not only on the first level customer , but second level customers as well . For example , faith-based hospitals are also public pharmacies .
“ There was no proper implementation of first in , first out products , so they had to risk their products running out of shelf-life . Management Science for
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