Bluciela-Lifesciences SAS, corporate Social Responsibility Program - Developing Nations

Corporate Social Responsibility Programs

Action Completed: Essential medicine distribution study - Aligned with UN & Unicef

  • My experience in Africa and knowledge of distribution of medicines has made me dedicated to deliver improvements. I issued a report to the Kenyan MOH and this was fully accepted and he wanted to implement across Kenya. Civeli war distrupted this plan. Today the same issues are in place: 36km walk to the nearest dispensary. Only one person managing and if they are not there another 36km or a long wait. Each dispensary has only 50% of essential medicines and they are replenished at best once per year and often less because there is no mapping of the dispensaries.
  • Study of an example developing nations hospitals, clinics & dispensaries
  • Review of facilities, inventories, stock levels, expired materials & availability

Planned action: Temperature monitoring of critically impacted products

  • Vaccines stored in fridges not defrosted
  • Vaccines shipped in plastic sacks with ice packs in contact with the vaccines
  • VVM (Vaccine vial monitors) only for high temperature excursions not for deviations below zero degrees C.

Boosting participation of women in post 11yr old adult education

  • Many girls drop out of school between the ages 11-13 as they reach puberty.
  • The lack of sanitary towels causes them to stay at home after being teased.
  • Once at home the parents find them work or a husband and they dont fulfil their education

Action Completed: Distribution of 3.5 million Malaria Nets

Following an urgent request from the World Bank & UNICEF

Urgent action requested to reduce deaths due to malaria  -  Annually 2k people die per 500k population.

Imagine that in your local town or city or nation.

Nigel was asked to undertake the distribution including training within 8 weeks. The nets were in containers at Mombasa docks. Nigel brought together a team of experts. Knowing how difficult this challenge was  Nigel asked that nobody leave the room until a solution was found. Still after a day no solution was found. On the way back to the hotel Nigel decided to think differently. Not what could we do but what is already there. Two things came to mind: 1. A bar in every village with beer. 2. Private pharmacies in every village. (The latter discounted due to the issues around counterfeiting & costs) The next day a major brewery was connected and we asked if we could use their supply chain.

Then the work began and all nets were distributed to every corner of Kenya, Several nets and a trainer were loaded onto each delivery truck.

The following year a reduction in deaths of 30% was achieved. This was done for free!

Around 260,000 lives were saved.

 

Corporate Social Responsibility Action Completed

Action completed: Validation of a test to detect frozen vaccines in the field.

I contacted WHO about the poor quality of vaccines often frozen and destroyed.  It was known that there was an issue but no funding available to validate the test.  I raised the funding from DHL Lifesciences and together with WHO approached the university of Warsaw to fully validated the shake test for use on all aluminium complex based vaccines.

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