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Rwanda Medical Supply Ltd (RMS Ltd) is a large scale corporation created and owned by the government mandated to ensure the availability of health commodities for public health sector in Rwanda and managing the end-to-end health supply chain for Rwanda.

To fulfill this mandate RMS LTD has to perform successfully the supply chain processes through procurement, storage and distribution of health commodities to the public health institutions in the country.

RMS Ltd provides pharmaceuticals and health commodities towards 5 rights: the right patient, the right drug/dose, the right cost, the right route, and the right time.

With the objective to ensure availability of medicines, medical supplies and consumables in the right quantity, with the acceptable quality, to the right place and customers, at the right time and with optimum cost to the Rwandan population. To ensure uninterrupted availability of health commodities for the public, RMS Ltd has operational regional branches in all 30 districts around the country.

To satisfy its customer’s needs, RMS LTD ensures availability of health commodities and keeps the order fill rate higher by improving internal procurement, storage and distribution processes To achieve this, RMS Ltd controls the medicines supply chain across the country through its head offices in Kacyiru where it operates a central warehouse and manages the operations of 30 branches (former district pharmacies) in all districts.

To maintain high quality standards, Rwanda Medical Supply Ltd stores health products in recommended conditions such as the cold chain using required equipment to ensure that health products are kept at appropriate temperatures such as cold rooms and HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) system.