PPM & ACTUME join forces again to save lives!

“We have been working with PPM for more than eight years. PPM & ACTUME join forces again, through an agreement, to save lives. Beyond what this facilitates for us, it also testifies to the importance and credibility acquired by the ACTUME association. After three years of solidarity collaboration, within the framework of health caravans in Mauritania, where PPM has provided the association with the drugs necessary for this activity, the new agreement will allow the purchase of drugs and equipment intended for the Community pharmacy of Tékane”, rejoiced in April Oumar Kane, president of ACTUME, the Association Against Tuberculosis and Endemic Diseases.

This agreement will also promote awareness-raising actions in the field of health. It will help in the training of pharmacy staff and health professionals in the use of these drugs.

As part of this partnership agreement, PPM INTERNATIONAL, represented by its director Coumba Diallo, undertakes to:  provide a subsidy for the purchase of drugs as well as a financial contribution for construction; train, assist and advise on good practices to improve access to care and medicines; be the intermediary to supply through wholesalers medicines to the pharmacy ; help the management team to arrange pharmacy equipments; donate communication products and kits ( blouses, order books, exhibition furniture, etc.).

For its part, ACTUME undertakes, among other things, to appoint the contacts for the management of the pharmacy and to buy the PPM INTERNATIONAL drugs distributed in Mauritania corresponding to its needs by aligning itself with the price of the NGO wholesalers.

This pharmacy, whose first stone was laid in February 2018 and whose official inauguration will take place next July, will facilitate access to care for around 17,000 patients and will be a place of orientation, information and exchanges devoted to the health of the poorest. Similarly, it will ensure the improvement of the quality of health care thanks to the traceability of medicines and a permanent health prevention strategy within this commune of Tékane, located in the south-west of Mauritania, not far from the border with Senegal.