CHANMEDI-HARM LTD.

Pharma / Medical

Plateau, Nigeria

CHAN MEDI-PHARM is an ecumenical drug supply organization founded by three prominent church bodies to coordinate the provision of essential medicines and medical consumables primarily for church owned health facilities in the country.

It is a subsidiary and the drug supply and distribution arm of the Christian Health Association of Nigeria (CHAN), which has been in operations since 1979.

The founding bodies include:

The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Nigeria
The Christian Council of Nigeria
The Northern Christian Medical Advisory Council

CHAN has a membership strength of over 400 Member Institutions (MIs) otherwise called mission hospitals and 4000 primary healthcare facilities affiliated to the mission hospitals.

The Member Institutions render a wide scope of healthcare services from Primary to Tertiary and spread across various locations providing healthcare services in Nigeria with the overall mission of reaching the “unreached”, and making available, affordable and equitable healthcare to the economically and geographically disadvantaged populations in the country.

Over the years, the main thrust of operation of CHAN MEDI-PHARM has been hooked on achieving the following objectives:

– Promotion of equity of access to essential medicines to the poor and medically needy through a network of rural-based healthcare system and drug depots

– Promotion of use of generic essential medicines enabling a reduction in costs of treatment for the poor

– Promotion of access to antiretroviral medicines through the use of generic ARVs

– Promotion of rational use of medicines in order that patients may get greater value for their patronage as well as reduction of untoward effects of medicines when consumed

CHAN MEDI-Pharm has over 30 years’ experience in the business of bulk/pooled procurement, warehousing and distribution of essential medicines and medical consumables. CHAN Medi-Pharm has since expanded the scope of its services to include among others the provision of Procurement Supply Management (PSM) backbone for various donor funded healthcare projects in Nigeria and Health-related Grant Management.

Our core competence includes:

1. Drug and Commodity Supply Management Services

• Forecasting

• Procurement

• Port and Customs Clearance

• Distribution

• Drug Management & Information Systems

2. Training and capacity building:

3. Sales and Marketing of Essential Medicine

4. System design and development in such areas as:

• Procurement

• Distribution