ABSTRACT
Logistics plays a critical role in achieving quality service in the healthcare industry. The healthcare sector in sub-Saharan Africa is faced with numerous infrastructural and operational challenges ranging from poor inventory control of medical supplies and equipment to ineffectual transportation and distribution systems in hospitals. Due to the paucity of funding and poor policy formulation and implementation, logistic systems in hospitals have been poorly coordinated, making patients pay exorbitant prices for healthcare services. To make the healthcare industry efficient and effective, resources need to be harnessed to ensure fragmented activities are efficiently linked in a proactive and dynamic way, using innovative logistic practices that will address the peculiar challenges of healthcare delivery in sub-Saharan Africa.
