In addition to considering the cold, hard facts of pricing, demand, need etc. our proposal has the potential to touch the lives of thousands of families in a positive way. However, we must also consider the potential negative side-effects of our proposal to mitigate any issues.
A large concern around the use of misoprostol has been its misuse as an abortion pill (if taken before childbirth). We understand that abortion is highly stigmatized culturally, and the potential of misoprostol encouraging that is a large concern. The availability of misoprostol may also induce sexual vices not supported or condoned by the community. As much as we wish to help and save the lives of mothers, we understand how critical it is for our intervention to be readily accepted by the community.
Our response to this has been to create a thorough and exhaustive monitoring plan in addition to a clear training program. All participants in the program will be aware that misoprostol is to only be used for the prevention of postpartum hemorrhaging. The distribution model will require several points of data collection in order to ensure things are running smoothly and as they should. The specificity of our distribution plan gives rise to the need for specificity in tracking the life-cycle of the drug to make sure it does not fall into the wrong hands for the wrong reasons.
In this section, you will find a detailed description of our data divisions. Each of the four divisions occurs at a different time in the distribution pipeline to mitigate and prevent different issues from arising. A brief overview of each division is below:
The first stage in the pipeline where data collection occurs is when our distribution centre receives the misoprostol stock from DKT International.
Data inputs at this stage will include the following details about inventory: