POST 00974E : COLD CHAIN CAPACITY ASSESSMENT
Follow-up on Posts 00965E and 00971E
13 September 2006
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This posting contains three contributions.
The first is from Mohammad Abdullah Kainuwa (mailto:[email protected])
from Nigeria. The second is from Mogens Munck
(mailto:[email protected]) from Spain, who is also sending you three
useful lists for inventories. Finally, John Lloyd (mailto:[email protected])
from PATH in France, shares information about the spreadsheet mentioned by
John Pott in the previous message, and other software information. Note
John's request, and please respond.
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In addition to Kachallas' opinion which I agree totally with, there should
be other considerations especially for developing countries like Nigeria.
Comprehensive Inventory must take in to cognizance :
1) The prevailing disease control mission of the country or region.
2) Anticipated vaccine needs based on above i,e the kind of additional
supplemental immunization activities prescribed for the mission e.g. Polio
eradication initiative and Reaching Every District with routine vaccine.
3) It will also have to consider needs for introduction of additional or
new vaccines if necessary.
Finally I must confess I have not read the submission therefore my points
may be off target.
Dr Mohammad Abdullah Kainuwa
Vaccine Security and Logistic consultant
UNICEF Nigeria.
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Dear Robert Biellick,
Nice to hear from you again! I still remember you from your visit to
Mozambique in 2003 and your advocacy for measles campaign (if I remember
correctly!) .
With respect to Cold Chain assessment I would like to mention that an
up-to-date inventory is important, but also that WHO itself has the
documents that I attach (please see above) and which I find useful for cold
chain assessment. Particularly the assessment of freezing power is
important if you need ice packs for keeping for example vials with measles
vaccine cold after opening the vial.
All the best!
Regards,
Mogens Munck
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The spreadsheet that we created at the time was a model that relied on
estimates of existing equipment BY LEVEL/Type of store, not actual data on
equipment in each individual store. That model exists in its 90's format
(!) and I would be glad to send it to anyone that is interested: but it is
only an estimate in the absence of an inventory.
The only software that handles inventory data by store and compares
capacity to demand is the Peru MOH software (FoxPro) that is written and
maintained by Fernando Peres in Peru ([[email protected]][email protected][/email]) in Spanish only.
How much interest would there be if an english version of the software, the
inventory team manual/forms could be produced?
Press your reply button to vote!
John Lloyd
PATH
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