Saudi Gazette report
TABUK — The Normal Directorate for Well being Companies on the Ministry of Protection (MODHS), represented by King Salman Armed Forces Hospital within the Northwestern area of Saudi Arabia, has efficiently arrange the world’s first automated machine to dispense medicines.
This achievement can be added to a sequence of Saudi improvements within the area of know-how. It’s the first expertise of its variety on this planet, which is able to contribute to facilitating the life-style, because the gadget will dispense medicines electronically with out the necessity for the affected person to go to the hospital.
The machine consists of a workstation that handles the prescription barcode of the medicines, an interplay display for the beneficiary to make use of, a particular working system (robotic), along with a messaging platform to tell the beneficiary of the readiness of the prescription.
The machine serves the beneficiaries across the clock with a storage capability of 102-700 prescriptions. It’s also distinguished by the truth that it will possibly fill prescriptions containing a number of medicines, along with the function of extraordinarily excessive safety for medicines from injury, tampering, or theft. It additionally offers statistical knowledge on the disbursed medicines to the beneficiaries on a each day, month-to-month, or yearly foundation.
The director of the hospital’s pharmacy division, Olayan Al-Atawy, stated the machine works by scanning the barcode connected to the prescription and filling within the required knowledge, after which the beneficiaries can be requested to to pick the closest meting out machine to their location earlier than the pharmacist verifies via the digital prescription system the beneficiary’s prescription knowledge.
When the prescription is accredited, with out having any observations, the beneficiaries will obtain an SMS containing the code and the machine’s location, along with the request standing which allows them to go to the machine to dispense the medical prescription inside 48 hours. The beneficiaries can be requested to enter their civil report and the verification code despatched to their telephones, after which they may be capable of obtain the medicines.
Al-Atawy stated that this service, and the opposite medical providers, embodies the clever management’s take care of residents to satisfy their wants and facilitate entry to medicines within the best and greatest approach.
The machine dispenses all medicines which are prescribed to any affected person, besides medicines that require to be saved in very low temperatures, Al-Atawy stated, including that it’s going to shorten the ready time for sufferers to obtain the medicines from 4 hours in pharmacies to lower than 1 minute.
Al-Atawi confirmed that they’re at present in search of to create one other gadget inside a month from now, after the success of the present experiment.