It is estimated that more than 75% of the population uses traditional medicine primarily to treat health-related problems. In 2005, an evaluation confirmed the availability of high quality medicines in all provinces as one of the main achievements and the most important progress made in the pharmaceutical sector. However, despite this positive result, the evaluation report pointed out several issues and challenges (., slow and inefficient procurement system, inefficient and centralized drug warehousing and distribution system, ineffective drug regulation and weak registration system, shortage of qualified human resources for the sector, irrational use of medicines, etc.), which remained to be tackled in order to improve the performance of.
