Sudan is witnessing severe drugs, medicines, and medical supplies shortages, which represents a major impediment in the provision of emergency healthcare services Drug insecurity in Sudan is as a result of several accumulated factors, primarily due to worsening economic conditions, inappropriate pricing policy, privatization of the pharmaceutical sector, issues in manufacturing and incompetency of the regulatory system These could threaten patient health through replacement of highly efficacious medicines with less effective alternatives and by impacting the scheduling of urgent medical operations and procedures Drug and medicine shortages are of catastrophic impact especially throughout the current epidemic of COVID-19 where these are salient needs Efforts should be quickly directed to ensure immediate access to pharmaceutical products Effective policies on drug importation, production, pricing, and distribution should be readily established to avoid the consequences of an impending crisis
Drug shortage crisis in Sudan in times of COVID-19