The Hindu 23.09.2013
Corporation to e-manage medicine disbursement
This will help health officials know the stock position
Coimbatore Corporation will soon initiate a process to
monitor on a daily basis the disbursement of drugs at its urban health
centres.
According to the City Health Officer, P.
Aruna, the Corporation would install software in the computers available
with the medical officers in the health centres.
As and when the medical officers prescribed drugs, the same would get deducted from the stock the centres have.
The
changes in the stock position would get reflected in the server that
would be available at the Corporation’s main office in Town Hall.
This,
Dr. Aruna said, would enable the Corporation’s health officials to know
the stock position, reinforce the supply and also advice the medical
officers on how to manage the stock of drugs.
Citing
an example she said that if a medical officer were to prescribe only a
particular variety of antibiotic and exhaust the same before moving on
to the next variety, the Corporation could ask him to prescribe all the
varieties available so that the less-prescribed drugs did not expire.
The
second advantage in the new system was that the Corporation would be
immediately able to know of disease outbreak or a problem in an area
based on the drug dispensed.
This would quicken the reaction time for the civic body to prevent any outbreak.
The
next gain the Corporation would have by using the software was that it
would be in a position to arrest pilferage of drugs, if any.
The Corporation, she said, planned to install the software at the earliest and also train the medical officers and pharmacists.