The Ministry of Health is committed to ensuring the availability, equity and affordability of drugs, both health service drugs and health program drugs, as mandated by Law No. 36 of 2009 concerning Health.

In order to strengthen the strategy to fulfill drug needs and support health transformation, especially primary service transformation and health resilience system transformation, drug logistics management plays a very important role in ensuring access and quality of health services including drug availability. Good logistics management can ensure the continued availability of quality drugs, evenly distributed, the type and amount in accordance with the needs in health service units.

Broadly speaking, the drug logistics management cycle consists of planning, procurement, storage, distribution, and use. The needs planning process carried out by the Health Office generally uses 2 types of methods, namely the consumption method and the morbidity method. Data on drug needs planning at the Provincial/District/City Health Office must be precise and valid. Strengthening the planning of drug needs is manifested in a calculation in accordance with the specificities of each program to be applied nationally through the Drug and Vaccine Program Needs Calculation Matrix which has been compiled since the beginning of 2023 for the needs of 2024 in the drug e-monev application.

Accuracy of drug requirement planning (RKO) needs to be achieved to avoid potential over-supply or under-supply. A bottom-up drug planning system is expected to improve this accuracy. Coordination and integration between the person in charge of the program and the person in charge of pharmacy at every level, starting from the Puskesmas, district/city health office, provincial health office to the central government, needs to be improved. Thus, the availability of program drugs, which is a shared responsibility between the central, provincial, and regency/city governments, can be guaranteed.

Another aspect that affects the management cycle of logistics management is drug procurement. An effective procurement process must ensure availability, quantity, and timing at an affordable price and according to quality standards. Since 2014, we have implemented electronic drug procurement through e-purchasing e-Catalog. The component that determines the success of e-Catalog implementation is the drug requirement plan (RKO), in which the Health Office, government and private health facilities in collaboration with BPJS must submit the RKO.

The Directorate General of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices through the Directorate of Management and Health Services organized the Coordination of the Preparation of National Drug Needs Planning for 2023 (Phase II) on 14 - 16 June 2023 at the Grand Savero Hotel in Bogor.

The activity, which was opened by the Director General of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices, was attended by resource persons from the Directorate of Budget for Human Development and Culture of the Ministry of Finance, Directorate of Public Health and Nutrition of the Ministry of PPN / Bappenas, Directorate of Immunization Management of the Ministry of Health, Bengkulu Provincial Health Office and attended by representatives of the Planning and Budget Bureau, pharmaceutical officers from 34 provinces throughout Indonesia and officials / staff discussants responsible for planning the needs of drugs and vaccines programs within the Directorate General of P2P and Public Health. The purpose of this activity is to finalize the planning of drug and vaccine program needs as a basis for implementing procurement in 2024 on a preDIPA basis.

Director General of Pharmaceutical and Health Services, L. Rizka Andalusia said that the provision of drugs and vaccines can support health transformation programs, both primary and secondary services, whose management must be carried out properly and efficiently and effectively. This year, innovations will be made related to the planning of drug needs, namely preDIPA procurement. It is expected that the pharmaceutical industry is also ready to provide drugs, so we need early drug planning as the basis for the PreDIPA tender. The hope is that in early 2024 we will be able to supply the drugs and vaccines needed in the regions and we can carry out health service programs and immunization programs properly.

"We hope that the preparation of the RKO can be carried out as well as possible which will produce appropriate and efficient drug requirement data so that we can utilize the budget both APBN and APBD with good and correct drug planning, no drug vacancies, no drugs at risk of expiration and we can all implement health programs properly," said Rizka.

In order to appreciate the person in charge of preparing the RKO who has contributed consistently and optimally from 2017-2024, the Directorate General of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices through the Directorate of Pharmaceutical Management and Services appreciates the dedication of 13 (thirteen) persons in charge of preparing the Provincial RKO in ensuring the availability of adequate supply of drugs and vaccines in accordance with regional needs.

"I appreciate the person in charge of preparing the RKO who is always on time to send the RKO as the basis of the program to the Directorate General of Pharmacy to compile the needs," said Director of Pharmaceutical Management and Services, Agusdini Banun Saptaningsih.

"This Coordination Activity for the Preparation of National Drug Needs Planning for FY 2023, can produce valid drug planning data, both PKD drugs and program drugs, so that drugs can be available in sufficient quantities and types in health facilities in the coming year 2024, no more Prov / Regency / City / Health Center with drug vacancies, no more people who have difficulty getting access to drugs," said Tonny, Staff of the Bengkulu Provincial Health Office.

In the future, Tonny hopes that this reward can be increased so as to inspire officers to improve logistics management performance, especially planning drug needs. "In addition, we also hope that rewards for officers in Prov / District / City Pharmacy Installations will be further increased, both in terms of the number and category of awards," he concluded. In the activity, a desk was held to compile the 2024 health program RKO which will be used as the basis for calculating the proposed budget ceiling for the provision of drugs for TB, malaria, filariasis, mental health, diarrhea and immunization program vaccines in 2024. The agreed desk results will be outlined in the Minutes (BA) which can be downloaded in the drug e-monev application.