RE: [e-drug] Can expired drug still can be used? (11)

["KAZEEM BABATUNDE" <yusuffkby@yahoo.co.uk>]

E-DRUG:  Can expired drug still can be used? (11)
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Dear E-Druggers,

The very idea of considering the use of an expired
drug suggest a structural defects in both the care and
drug managements processes with in the health system.
And this underscores the important role of a committed
pharmacist to ensure that the limited funds available
are judiciously used. The importance of rational and
evidence-based selection and quantifications,
scrupulous procurement, devoid of underhand deals and
proper storage of all drugs is so central to the
successful delivery of effective and efficient health
care services to the millions of underserved people in
resource-limited setting; Where health care provisions
are often bogged down with less-than optimal drug
regulatory and distribution capacities and dubious and
practices based on dogmas (This is how we are told and
we have being doing it) rather than facts .

Thanks for bringing this to the front burner.

Kazeem Babatunde Yusuff
Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy
University of Ibadan
Nigeria
yusuffkby@yahoo.co.uk