O gerenciamento logístico de medicamentos na saúde

Abstract

Medicines and logistics are, along with human resources and financial administration, key elements that support the delivery the provision of health care to patients and operational excellence in Basic Health Units (BHU) and hospital institution. With the assistance program in health, came the challenge of meeting, store and move materials and information efficiently form in all jobs in health care. The structure of this study is based on bibliographic and consists of the review of key concepts addressed by the literature on logistics, its historical development and description of the main steps of the logistics management of materials in health. In Brazil, the logistical problem is particularly complex, mainly by the size of population and land area in which it is distributed. Thus, road transport is the most flexible, but is the more expensive system, what ends up burdening the cost of merchandise consumer. Another aspect is the weak observed small amounts of drugs available to users. It was also possible to identify that an efficient purchasing management can promote saving supplies when there is harmony between supply and demand, a technically correct storage, stock control and accountability in the dispensation. In this context some suggestions were proposed to improve the existing framework in logistics management of medicines in health facilities, ranging from the responsibility of selecting vendors and products to the use of information technology as a way to guide and expedite the process of decision making.