The Pharmacy Service is a Clinical Central Service which aims to ensure the quality, support and maximum benefit of the pharmacotherapeutic process for our patients. The pharmacy service can be considered a functional unit with a double role: on the one hand, resource management, and on the other hand, patient care.
In the Pharmacy Service, there are separate areas for:
Procurement of medicines and medical supplies
Storage of medicines and medical supplies
Returning medicines
Control of medicine and medical supplies expiration dates
Economic management of medicines and medical supplies
Management of orders, delivery notes and invoices
Monthly analysis of the hospital’s medicine and medical supplies expenses
Distribution of medicines to floors through a UDDDS (unit dose drug distribution system)
Distribution of medicines and medical supplies through replacement kits
Dispensing of drugs to outpatients
Preparation of liquid pharmaceuticals: topical, oral, and rectal
Selection of medicines and medical supplies for the hospital through the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Establishment of criteria for using medications
Design and development of therapeutic protocols
Consultation for information on medicines and medical supplies
Therapeutic consultations
Information on drug interactions
Information on adverse drug effects
Management of drug alerts
Management of medical device alerts
Expiration alerts
Record of medication errors
Processing of yellow cards
Incident log
Validation of electronic medical prescription
Evaluating drug interactions
Evaluating therapeutic duplications
Pharmacy and Hospital Therapeutics Commission
Clinical-Therapeutic Concordance Commission
Transfusion and Blood Products Commission
Quality Commission
2 Pharmacy technicians
1 Specialist pharmacist in hospital pharmacy
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