Medication Access and System Resilience

Ensuring continuous access to essential medicines is critical to health system performance. Supply disruptions can affect routine care, chronic disease management, and emergency response capacity.

Ensuring access to essential medicines is fundamental to health system performance.

Jamaica faces ongoing challenges related to supply disruptions, import dependency, and limited localized pharmaceutical capacity.

These constraints can affect continuity of care, patient outcomes, and emergency response readiness.

Key risks include:

• Import dependence

• Global shortages

• Demand shocks

• Disaster disruption

• Procurement lead times

Strengthening pharmaceutical resilience is critical to supporting a stable and effective health system.