collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health t
IBM today announced a collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health to provide citizens with improved access to 200 lifesaving drugs. Supported by the World Bank, th find e Department for International Development, UNICEF and London Business School, Zambia’s Medical Stores Limited (MSL) will deploy a new medical supply chain pilot project using sophisticated analytics and mobile technologies to better manage medicine inventory and delivery. The public health sector in Zambia registers 100,000 deaths annually due to preventable and treatable diseases. The goal of the medicine supply chain management project is to save more lives by making medicine widely a house vailable when and where it’s needed. The Ministry of Health is introducing innovative technology to manage a scalable supply chain and contro business l the usage, supply, availability and access to essential medicine within the Zambian health sector. The solution will provide a real-time view of drug