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Introduction

The opening of the Pharmacy Unit Sipitang Hospital coincide with the commissioning of the Hospital. As the other unit found in this Hospital, it’s started operation on the 10t^hof April 1995.

The set up of the Pharmacy Unit of this Hospital differs from other Pharmacy Unit found in other Hospital in Sabah. Separate counter was built for outpatient dispensing counter and for ward supply. Many rooms of different function and purposes was also included in the set up of this unit such as Internal preparation room, room for liquid preparation, corrosive substance store, raw material store, empty bottle store, I.V Drip store and also a room specially for a Pharmacist A comfortable rest room with settee for the staff convenience was one of the characteristic not found in other Pharmacy Unit of other Hospital in Sabah.

Administrative wise, this unit also took charge of the Hospital Store. One Storekeeper and an attendant is responsible to ensure smooth operation of the Store Unit inclusively the Inflammable Store which was situated the Store building.

Objective

The Objective of this unit is to give efficient and qualitative pharmaceutical services to the patient by:

Ensuring that all customer are given and supplied with medication prescribed correctly according to their needs and attended with kindness smile.
Providing relevant information to the customer regarding their medication through detail explanation.
Closely monitoring and control of usage of drug and non-drug to ensure that stock are available and sufficient at all times so as to minimize inconvenience to the customer and also to prevent wastage.
Maintaining update record of dangerous and psychotropic drug to prevent misuses according to Poison 1952.

Departmental Activities.

Ward Pharmacy ( In Patient )

Supply of medication by system unit of use
Supply of floor stock system
Supply of disinfectant, lotions and intravenous fluid
Supply of dangerous drug
Supply of emergency trolley drug
Inspection and control of drug

Out Patient Pharmacy ( Counter Service )

Out patient department counter service for general cases attending at Health Clinic Sipitang.
Hospital Counter service for patient attending the Accident and Emergency Unit and Review cases.
Bedside dispensing: Dispensing for discharged patient in the ward.

Substore Pharmacy

Stock monitoring
Indenting drug from Integrated Store
Supply to Out Patient Department Pharmacy

Production Section

Prepacking of medication like table, mixture and syrup
Preparation of externporaneous items
Dilution for lotions and disinfectant

Integrated Store

Purchasing of drug and non-drug.
Indenting of drug and non-drug from Central Medical Store and Remedi Pharmaceutical (M) Sdn. Bhd.
Supply of drug and non-drug to all unit the Hospital and three Health Clinic namely K.K. Meligan, K.K. Sindumin and M.C.H. Clinic Sipitang.

POST AND VACANCIES IN THE PHARMACY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL SIPITANG

POST	NO.OF POST AVAILABLE	NO.OF POST FILLED	NO.OF VACCANCIES
Pharmacist U3	02	0	02
Pharmacy Assistant U7	01	0	01
Pharmacy Assistant	03	04	-1
Storekeeper	01	01	0
Attendant	02	02	0

QUALITY OUTPUT FOR PHARMACY AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL SIPITANG

No.	Items	1995	1996	1997
1	No. of Prescription received	34,217	37,335	40,922
2	No. of Drug Profile and Indent	2,698	3,382	3,194
3	No. of Ward Functioning with unit of use	2	2	2
4	Quantity for galanical preparation	1953.75 lit	3464.68 lit	2184.25 lit
5	No. of item received	1594	720	697
6	No. of item supplied	3036	2911	2967