MedSource Group Limited GPO platform to provide affordable, good quality medications &Supplies

MedSource was incorporated as a private group purchasing organization to provide a user-friendly pharmaceutical procurement platform that delivers a vetted market to distributors; and negotiated prices, quality-tested medicines and supplies, and inventory financing to dispensers – down to the most remote community drug outlets in Kenya. This is critical because in Kenya, as in much of Africa, the community pharmacy is the first point of call for primary care for about 70% of patients and serves as a critical interface with the health system. It is at the community level that the impact of MedSource is evident: up to double-digit savings on medicines for customers; service from trained pharmacists and certified pharmacy technicians; and regular access to stocked supplies and quality-tested medicines. MedSource facilitates the procurement of more than 1,450 primary health care products and over 1,100 medicines from the essential medicines list.