The Ministry of Health with support from partners in the Health sector have initiated a process of integrating nutritional health supplies into the national essential medicines and health supply system at the National Medical Stores(NMS) to foster efficiency in the procurement, storage and distribution of nutritional supplements in the health country.
The new state of the art warehouse is situated on 10 acres of land and will contain 30,000 pallet locations.
NMS Celebrated 25 years of existence with the theme - Innovations for effective and efficient Service Delivery [Dec 2018]
The former American Ambassador to Uganda H.E. Deborah R. Malac greets Director Beatrice Lagada Amongi (Mrs) of the NMS Board of Directors, at the Launch of NMS+ [Feb 15th 2019] as other Directors of the NMS Board look on.
NMS Processes of Procurement, Sales, Storage and Distribution of Medicine and Medical supplies are ISO 9001: 2015 CERTIFIED [23rd Aug 2018]
Our team offloading Essential Medicine and Medical supplies at Moyo District Health Office. [Jan 2019]
Despite the challenges faced, NMS beats all odds to deliver as per the published delivery schedule to every facility in Uganda.
To foster transparency and accountability, all supplies delivered by NMS are first verified by the health facility
NMS General Manager hosted the Director of the Oversight & Investigations Committee of the US House of Representatives, Jeannette Windon and her delegation at NMS [Jan 2018]
The former Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, His Grace Henry Ntagali, engages the media after a guided tour of the NMS Warehouse [ Dec 2018]
UNICEF awarded NMS a certificate in Recognition of Exceptional Achievement for improvement in EVM Criteria Scores and Infrastructure Capacity and Quality at the National Level [2018]
H.E Ravi Shankar, the Indian High Commissioner to Uganda, hands over a donation of Essential Medicine and Medical supplies worth 1.6 million USD to the Hon. Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng [Feb 2019]
NMS Smart Care is a set of online tools (including mobile APPS - NMS SMART CARE APP and NMS LMD APP in Google Play Store) that enable Public Health Facilities and the general public to give and receive feedback on the medicine and medical supplies. Read More
NMS delivers medicine up to the facility’s doorstep. NMS delivers medicine to all health facilities from RRH’s, General Hospitals, HCIV’s, HCIII’s and HCII’s through a system called Last mile delivery Read More
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