Publication | Process improvement for government drug procurement in India

By Harleen Kaur, Ajay Shah, and Siddhartha Srivastava

In India, drug quality is an important problem. Government agencies are an important buyer of drugs, and also face significant problems with drug quality. In this paper, we examine the mechanisms used for drug purchase by four Indian states - Rajasthan, Punjab, Bihar, and Gujarat. We establish a taxonomy of 13 design elements that define the drug procurement process. We engage in deductive reasoning about the design elements that appear to be useful and those that are less so. This work would help policymakers placed in an Indian public sector context in devising better procedures for drug purchase.

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