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N-ikshay platform has a module for drug dispensation to patients. This feature is used for:

Ni-kshay Aushadhi is a web-based portal that deals with the management of stocks (anti-TB drugs, consumables and other commodities) across all the stocking points across the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP), i.e., Government Medical Store Depot (GMSD), Central Medical Services Society (CMSS) warehouses, State Drug Stores (SDS), District Drug Stores (DDS), TB Units (TUs) including Peripheral Health Institutes (PHIs).

Lead time is defined as the time interval between the order generation for a product and its receipt/ availability for use.

Buffer stock refers to a reserve that is used in unforeseen emergencies. It is also known as strategic stock or safety stock.

The short expiry drugs are the drugs which are left with a short shelf-life and need to be utilised immediately to avoid their expiry. 

The principle of First-Expired, First-Out (FEFO) means that the drugs which are due to expire first, are to be issued first. 

The FEFO principle ensures that the product with the shortest expiry date is utilised at the earliest within its shelf-life. 

Following the FEFO principles, the stocks need to be placed/ arranged/ stacked in a sequential manner. 

Steps Followed for Implementing FEFO

Minimum Stock

 A minimum stock level is a threshold value that indicates the level below which actual medicine stock should not normally be allowed to fall.

In other words, a minimum stock level is a minimum quantity of a particular drug/ medicine that must be kept at all times.

The main factors to consider when fixing the minimum stock level are:

Various stocks are maintained at different levels. To facilitate the monitoring of the quantity of these stocks, these are classified as follows:

• Good quality sputum collection is of paramount importance in tuberculosis diagnosis.
• Once a person is identified as presumptive TB, s/he is referred to the Designated Microscopy Centre (DMC) for sputum collection.
• For TB diagnosis two sputum samples are collected - one is the supervised ‘spot’ sample collected at the DMC (labelled Specimen A) and the other is the early morning sample collected by patient themselves at his/her home (labelled Specimen B).