ABUTH pharmacy bulk store, laboratory construction to gulp N70m –HOD
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Pharmacy
By Mohammed Lawal
Zaria (Kaduna State), Feb. 22, 2017 (NAN) Mrs Bilkisu Umar, Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria, said the construction of a new pharmacy bulk store with a quality control laboratory for the department would gulp about N70 million
Umar disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria on Wednesday.
She said: “There is no doubt that our operational capacity in the bulk store has outgrown our current storage capacity, it is necessary that drugs are kept in the required conditions.
“This is in line with good storage practice for pharmaceutical products and international best practice. It is estimated that the project would cost about N70 million,” she said.
According to her, the phase II of e-pharmacy would cover In-Patient pharmacy, UDDS, Oncology, Medical Outpatient Department, Psychiatry, Accident and Emergency, Anaesthesia and Out Stations.
“Phase II implementation covering hardware, software and networking is estimated to cost about N12 million.
“The implementation of this second phase will make the computerisation holistic and data complete for reference and research.
“The incomplete nature of our data presently due to non implementation of phase II makes monitoring very difficult,” she said.
Umar said that the e-pharmacy management system software recently introduced in the teaching hospital was designed for more than 10 years hospital pharmacy experience to make pharmacists’ work easy.
She said the system covered cost of drugs, where the cost and selling prices would be entered into the system.
“When the patient comes, it is supposed to ease the work by way of generating prices immediately after the drugs are entered into the system.
“Other information will be captured such as patient’s name, age, body surface area and weight depending on what the Doctor decides to fill.
“All these information are supposed to assist the system to validate the prescription by way of telling the pharmacist whether the drugs are prescribed appropriately,” she said.
Umar said the system would check whether the drugs were prescribed appropriately in the appropriate doses, direction and duration.
“If there is any interaction between the drugs prescribed as entered in the system, the system will tell the pharmacist immediately.
“In other words, it is like giving the pharmacist access to all necessary informations within the shortest possible time,” she noted. (NAN)
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Edited by Joseph Edeh/Maharazu Ahmed
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