adminPaidamoyo Chipunza Senior Reporter
Construction of a state-of-the art national pharmaceutical warehouse for the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm) in Harare has kicked off and is expected to be complete in the next two years, NatPharm managing director Mrs Flora Sifeku has said.
In an interview with The Herald yesterday Mrs Sifeku said the project, which is a partnership between Zimbabwe and China is meant to accommodate 22 000 pallets of medicines. The existing structure only accommodate nine pallets of medicines.
“So far we are happy with the progress and in two years time, we would be utilising that new warehouse.
“The old warehouse is very small, we inherited it in 1980 and it was meant for a few people and limited diseases, but now the disease burden has more than tripled so we will be happy when this warehouse is complete,” said Mrs Sifeku.
She said the new warehouse would make recording, storage and stock taking easy as everything would also be computerised.
“We were having difficulties in recording what is in stock and what is out of stock as everything was done manually. We anticipate the new warehouse to be equipped with technological systems, which enable us to log-in and log-out as stock comes in,” said Mrs Sifeku.
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