Logistics Management and Performance of Federal Tertiary Health Institutions in South East, Nigeria

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• August 15, 2023
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ABSTRACT

The study evaluated the logistics management and performance of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to: examine the relationship between planning and operational delivery of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria, evaluate the relationship between inventory control and income generation of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria and identify the relationship between material handling and Patients’ Safety of Care of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria. A stratified sampling method was adopted. The sample size of the study was three hundred and seventy-one (371) using Freund and Williams’s formula.  Three hundred and fifty-four (354) returned their questionnaire and accurately filled representing 95 percent response rate. The instrument for data collection used in the study was structured questionnaire. The validity of the instrument was ascertained with a proper structuring of the questionnaire and a conduct of a pre-test of every question contained in the questionnaire to ensure that they are valid. The reliability was tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). It gave reliability co-efficient of 78.0.  Data were presented and analyzed by mean score (3.0 and above agreed while below 3.0 disagreed) and standard deviation using Sprint Likert Scale. Pearson correlation was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that There was positive significant relationship between planning and operational delivery of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria r (97, n = 354) = .433 < 0.874, p < 0.05. There was positive significant relationship between inventory control and income generation of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria r (97, n = 354) = .526 < 0.834, p < 0.05. There was positive significant relationship between material handling and Patients’ Safety of Care of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria r (97, n = 354) = .433 < 0.866, p < 0.05.  The study concluded that planning, inventory control and material handling had positive significant relationship with the operational efficiency, income generation and safety of federal tertiary health institutions in South-East, Nigeria.

Keywords: Logistics Management; Performance; Planning; Efficiency Federal Tertiary; Health institution

Authored BY

Ukwuani, Benard Okey

FULL PDF   |  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8246921