In Tucuman, A Program of Sexual Health Delivered Contraceptives That Were About To Expire
<p style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">According to SIGEN the plan recorded "significant deficiencies" that prevent proper control of goods received by the beneficiaries. The agency visited an operational area right in the same month that 175 boxes of "the morning after pill" that were in stock but had expired. "The population is not properly informed," says the study.</span></p>
According to the Comptroller General's Office (SIGEN) program of Sexual Health and Responsible Parenthood running in Tucuman recorded "significant deficiencies" that create difficulties in controlling stock of contraception and the actual receipt of benefits by of beneficiaries. In some primary care centers (CAPS), for example, drugs about to expire found.
In Tucuman, the program is conducted by delivering contraceptives, male condoms and intrauterine devices (DIU), received operational, charge control areas Hospitals and CAPS, and distributed in health centers.
SIGEN detected that operational areas had "poor hygiene in deposits" and "drugs not ordered by lot and expiration date," which prevented its timely distribution. It is that auditors performed the physical count in April 2008, just as maturing Levonorgestrel Max 175 boxes, emergency contraception.
Also, in some CAPS 94 boxes of the same drug about to expire were found.
The report, adopted this year on 2008 data points out that there are operational areas where "no output packing slips contraceptives are made, or stock sheets" and, in other cases, "not all input registers and movements output drugs." Furthermore, "the recipes prescribed by practitioners are not archived, or a record stating the actual receipt by the beneficiary takes".
As for the CAPS, the report explains that in 15 of the 28 centers visited no stocks of medicines chips are made and that "storage management of contraceptives and condoms is in charge of the prescriber". One of these cases is given "in the operational area Bella Vista, where the gynecologist, serving in the centers of the area," is the person withdrawing and distributes medicines at their discretion "among the various effectors primary care.
Finally, the SIGEN adds that "although the Province through the program aims to develop comprehensive policies on sexual and reproductive health, the target population is not properly informed".