Nicoli Francesco, Paudel Deepak, Bresciani Giulio, Rodi Donata, Siniscalchi Anna
Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, via Fossato di Mortara 64A, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.
Center for International Health, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
Int Health. 2018 Mar 1;10(2):133-136. doi: 10.1093/inthealth/ihy004.
Donation of returned medicines is a debated health policy issue as it is discouraged by WHO, but accepted in some countries.
Lessons learned from a donation programme of returned medicines carried out in Europe were documented.
The donation programme we reviewed followed a strict protocol for collection, sorting and distribution of returned drugs, in order to avoid the major limitations associated with unused medicine donations. Over a period of 3 years, 23 145 boxes of medicines were donated to 14 organizations operating in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
The donations covered about one-third of the volume of medicines used by beneficiary organizations. The programme helped to decrease expenditure by both patients and health facilities.
退回药品的捐赠是一个存在争议的卫生政策问题，因为世界卫生组织不鼓励这样做，但在一些国家是被接受的。
记录了从欧洲开展的退回药品捐赠项目中吸取的经验教训。
我们审查的捐赠项目遵循了严格的退回药品收集、分类和分发协议，以避免与未使用药品捐赠相关的主要限制。在3年的时间里，向在欧洲、非洲和拉丁美洲开展业务的14个组织捐赠了23145箱药品。
捐赠的药品约占受益组织所用药品量的三分之一。该项目有助于降低患者和医疗机构的支出。
