Objective To survey the drug distribution status in 24 township medical units in Shuangliu county, so as to provide references to explore the drug distribution mode for well-off township hospital.
Methods An outline was made to interview the relevant workers who were in charge of the rural drug distribution management in all levels of the food and drug supervision bureaus of Sichuan province, Chengdu city or Shuangliu county, the township hospitals, the village clinics, and the drug distribution enterprises. At the same time, a self-designed questionnaire was distributed to 24 county township medical units (ie, three central township hospitals, three community health centers, and 18 general township hospitals). The Epidate3.1 was used for data-inputting, and the SPSS 17.0 was used for descriptive statistics and stratified analyses.
Results At present, there was only one enterprise taking responsibility of the rural drug distribution in Shuangliu county since the strategy of enterprise direct-distribution under “two nets” supervision starting iShuangliu county of Sichuan province; Township medical units; Drug distribution; Status surveyn 2003, and there was no obvious difference in distribution before and after that strategy. The general satisfaction of 24 county township medical units with the distribution enterprise was only 50%, and the satisfaction with the price and the number of drug distribution was the lowest, accounting for 37.5% and 33.3%, respectively.
Conclusion The enterprise direct-distribution under the “two nets” supervision for rural drug distribution makes the drug distribution market regular and gets good social effect, but there are still the same problems such as lack of marketization, low transparency, and high drug price, so it is necessary to introduce a new competition and management mechanism to promote the new breakthrough in rural drug distribution.
Citation： LI Changjiang,ZHENG Yong,LIAO Jing,LI Youping,LI Fangping,CAI Li,WANG Haijiang,MENG Qinggui,LAI Wei,FENG Yishen,HAN Liang,YANG Yingxi,FAN Huaichang,LI Honghao. A Status Survey on Drug Distribution in Township Medical Unit in Shuangliu County of Sichuan Province. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2011, 11(7): 775-778. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20110133 Copy