Procurement process and shortages of essential medicines in public health facilities: A qualitative study from Nepal

• Basant Adhikari ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Basant Adhikari, Kamal Ranabhat, Pratik Khanal, Sunil Shrestha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ministry of Health, Bagmati Province, Hetauda, Nepal, Nepal Public Health Association, Lalitpur, Nepal, ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3838-319X

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• Kamal Ranabhat ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Basant Adhikari, Kamal Ranabhat, Pratik Khanal, Sunil Shrestha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Pratik Khanal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Basant Adhikari, Kamal Ranabhat, Pratik Khanal, Sunil Shrestha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nepal Public Health Association, Lalitpur, Nepal, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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• Manju Poudel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Science, Lalitpur, Nepal

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• Sujan Babu Marahatta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nepal Open University, Lalitpur, Nepal, Manmoohan Memorial Institute of Health Science, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom

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• Saval Khanal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Economics Consulting, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

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• Vibhu Paudyal,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Pharmacy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

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• Sunil Shrestha

  Contributed equally to this work with: Basant Adhikari, Kamal Ranabhat, Pratik Khanal, Sunil Shrestha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sunilcresta@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-7120

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