Assessing efficient cold chain management practices in the health sector and its impact on service delivery in ghana: a study of komfo anokye teaching hospital, kumasi docx


Cold Chain Delivery System In The Healthcare Sector



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ColdChain
2.2.3 Cold Chain Delivery System In The Healthcare Sector
The cold pharmaceutical chain and the healthcare supply chain are associated with the supply chain of medicines within pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, health centres, and pharmacies (
Bamakan et al., 2021)
. Cold chain’s importance in healthcare cannot be overemphasized mainly due to the worldwide priority of the conception of a vaccine in the fight against Corona Virus (COVID-19), disrupting every aspect of man’s life (Izikki et al.,
2021). Disease prevention in the last century has been the most significant public health success through global intensified vaccination efforts by numerous corporations,
governments and researchers to improve and manage vaccines at hand and develop new ones
(Bankole et al., 2010). After securing the manufacturing of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Izikki et al. (2021), secure vaccine transportation and distribution-free from wastage remains the main challenge. The greatest public health success chalked in the last century by the healthcare sector in terms of disease prevention, according to Bankole et al. (2010), was made possible by an efficient vaccine supply chain system (cold chain) in vaccinations programs (Chiodini, Cold chain in healthcare, according to the WHO, is a set of rules and procedures that ensure the proper storage and distribution of vaccines to health services from the national to the local level interconnected with refrigeration equipment that allows vaccines to be stored at recommended temperatures to maintain their potency (WHO, 2021). However, the cold chain in healthcare delivery covers vaccines. It is an end-to-end system of storing and
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transporting vaccines or healthcare products at desired temperatures from the point of manufacture to the point of use (FedEx, 2020). Therefore, according to Asamoah et al.
(2021), increased vaccination coverage necessitates quality cold chain management systems that assure the efficient distribution of cost-effective vaccines stored at the proper temperatures.
The increased vaccination coverage benefited from the cold chain delivery system in the healthcare sector has reportedly prevented an estimate of 26 million cases of childhood disease in the United States (Pfizer, 2019). Although with the breakthrough of the cold chain system in healthcare, it is faced with many challenges such as erratic electric power supply,
inadequate financing, lack of adequate implementation systems, insufficient cold chain capacity, lack of trained personnel, inadequate storage facilities, poor information,
communication and consumption data (Ashok et al., 2017; Oli et al., 2016; Lakew et al.,
2015; Rogie et al., 2013; WHO, 2006).

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