A new system that would boost logistics of pharmaceutical drugs in South Sudan has been completed, the U.S. development agency said today in Juba.

Jaffrey Bakken, Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in South Sudan said the program would continue relations with the Ministry of Health.

“We are working on health, basic education and governance and we will continue our supply chain with the Ministry of Health”, Bakken said. He said that in some areas that have seen insecurity, USAID would stop drug shipments.

Achanye Charles, the Managing Director of medical supples in the Ministry of Health said that through USAID, the government was able to achieve the Drugs and Food Control Authority Act of 2012 that created guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry. 

Charles added that due to inadequate staffing at the all levels, there has been a lack of effective distribution of drugs to countries.