The Federal Ministry of Health through the Nigeria Supply Chain Integration Project (NSCIP) of the National Product Supply Chain Management Programme (NPSCMP) is supporting the Logistics Management Coordination Units (LMCU) in all states of the country with state-of-the-art equipment to bolster their activities towards ensuring that health commodities are available to patients and reduce incidents of wastages and expiries at health facilities.

Equipment delivered to each state LMCU include generating sets, work stations, desktops/laptops computers, printers, photocopiers, scanners, projectors, print papers and metal shelves.

In his brief before the equipments were distributed, the National Coordinator of NSCIP; Pharm. Linus Odoemene, thanked the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, for his support. He called on partners like the Global Fund to not relent in their support for the country, especially in terms of equipment support towards the strengthening of systems.

Pharm. Odoemene called on state governments to further support the LMCUs in ensuring that health commodity coordination is done properly especially during the procurement, storage, distribution and eventually use of these products.

NSCIP was set up in 2014 to ensure that public health commodities, stakeholders and systems are aligned towards improvement of patient outcomes while reducing incidences of product expiries and wastages.