[afro-nets] Use of private sector to scale up malaria treatment (2)

["samuel ogillo" <ogillo@yahoo.com>]

Dear Ngemera,

Greetings from your "next door neighbor!".

I am writing to you on behalf of the Association of Private Health Facilities in Tanzania (APHFTA).  Many of ADDOs in Songea are APHFTA members. Thanks for doing so much to them! I have one comment. It is hard to understand why the private clinics and dispensaries with trained personnel are denied access to the ALU, while the small shops are supplied with the medicines! The private medical practitioners in Tanzania are wondering why they are denied access while they see the patients and do the diagnosis, but have no access to the subsidized ALU. The Drugs cost up to 12 US$ in the private market, but in government stores it costs less than a dollar, and also very much less in your ADDO program. People attending the private facilities can?t afford the cost, and some have actually died!

May we kindly meet to discuss this if possible, you may at least enlighten me, because so far I was struggling to know who was in charge of this wonderful program, which, if well utilised, can be of great benefit to millions of Tanzania who suffer annually from malaria.

Regards, 

Dr. Samwel Ogillo
Program Manager
Association of Private Health Facilities in Tanzania (APHFTA)
55/644 Lumumba Street
P.O. Box 13234
Tel: +255 22 2184667/2184508
Cell: + 255 754 520 396
   or + 255 784 520 396  
Fax: + 255 22 2184508/2184667
mailto:ogillo@aphfta.org
Website: http://www.aphta.org