Evaluation de l'Evolution des Besoins et de la Consommation des Produits Pharmaceutiques Durant la Pandemie COVID-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had a very profound impact on hospital pharmacy. Indeed, as hospital pharmacists, we have been forced to adapt quickly to the epidemiological situation that has marked the whole world since the end of 2019. During our study, we noted the unprecedented effect of this pandemic on the management of hospital pharmacy in EH and EPSP. The period of the pandemic has seen an explosive increase in the consumption of pharmaceutical products, in particular personal protective equipment’s , terrible pressure has been exerted on the pharmacist by the multiplication of the needs for drugs and MDs, by ruptures on a global scale of these products and above all by the change in the behavior of the nursing staff who, with the pressure of work, want at all costs to be protected against the virus, which has made the pharmacist's task a daily battle to ensure patient care and protection for nursing staff. The analysis of the data clearly showed that there were considerable increases in the consumption and the needs for pharmaceutical products with a multiplication of the orders expressed by the pharmacists with their suppliers. Faced to this, shortages in most pharmaceutical products throughout the period of the pandemic and the inability of suppliers to honor their contracts, which has prompted pharmacists to find alternatives to deal with these shortages. In terms of the direct care of patients with COVI-19, it was the hospitals that played the most important role, the EPSPs, for their part, were much more involved in vaccination and epidemiological investigations of the entourages of those affected. Finally, the hospital pharmacy has played a key role in the fight against the COVID- 19 virus and has acquired new experiences allowing it to be up to the task in the face of the preliminary health crises that could threaten our health system.