Open Recommendations

The Associate Director for Health Services recognizes and shares Peace Corps/The Gambia’s promising practices with other posts to help guide their medical inventory practices and needed improvements.

The Country Director of Peace Corps/Namibia instructs the Peace Corps Medical Officer and other medical staff to perform a full medical inventory count of controlled substances under the supervision of Director of Management and Operations and witness the inventory count.

The Country Director of Peace Corps/Namibia ensures all controlled substances are securely locked in a cabinet inside a secure room and monitors access to the storage unit.

The Country Director and Director of Management and Operations of Peace Corps/Namibia conduct staff training on the medical inventory process and educate staff on agency requirements, roles and responsibilities, procedures for implementing the inventory system, and special standards for controlled substances in accordance with agency requirements.

The Country Director and Director of Management and Operations of Peace Corps/Namibia and develop a plan to provide additional oversight through at least calendar year 2026 to ensure that the processes required to manage controlled substances are being followed and that the personnel are adequately managing medical inventories.

The Country Director of Peace Corps/Namibia ensures controls over dispensing records, including signed receipts from the volunteers (form Peace Corps-734D), are monitored, the dispensing book is secured properly, and copies are distributed to designated staff and filed in a timely manner.

The Country Director and Director of Management and Operations of Peace Corps/Namibia review the Health Unit Assessment and recommendations completed in August 2024 and create a plan for addressing the recommendations fully with target dates for implementation.

The Associate Director for Health Services and the Regional Director of the Africa Region follow up with the Country Director and Peace Corps Medical Officer in Peace Corps/Namibia to ensure appropriate action is taken to implement these recommendations to improve management of controlled substances.