7 Extemporaneous compounding is one of the required competencies of practice for pharmacists in many countries.
8 Hospital pharmacies are among the areas where extemporaneous compounding is practiced.
Overview of the Dermatologic Compounding Practice in Ethiopian Public Hospitals
The pharmacy service areas in the majority of the country’s public hospitals have been mainly concerned with the clinical pharmacy service, drug supply management, drug information, and dispensing services. According to the 2019/2020 report of Health Sector Transformation Plan I performance, nationally there are 353 functional hospitals in the country. As per the information obtained from the Ministry of Health-Ethiopia, there are only 17 public hospitals in the country that have established dermatologic compounding services as of November 2020 in which about 30% of them are located in the capital Addis Ababa. It is observed that more than one-third of public hospitals in the city have started the servi