Material Management - Basic tips for new medical officers

Material management

1. Write clearly in the O.P ticket, Drug and Injection tokens.
2. Do not refer any patient without a referral slip duly signed by you. It is better to make a note of the details of the patient in your nominal register including the address.
3. Technically competent persons who can dispense drugs in the phc of course medical officer and Staff nurse pharmacist anm vhns shn H.I. lab asst
4. Hospital worker, CCW, FNA , MNA, S.W. driver do not have legal right and technical competency to Dispense drugs.
5. When the pharmacist is on leave, the local vhn can be deputed for giving either drugs or injection and the anm or staff nurse can do the other work. Hospital worker CCW, FNA , MNA, S.W. driver should not give drugs. It is a criminal offence and the medical officer will alone be held responsible. .
6. Technically competent persons who can dispense injections in the phc of course medical officer and Staff nurse anm vhns only. The pharmacist .hospital worker CCW, FNA , MNA, S.W. driver lab asst do not have legal right and technical competency to Dispense injections. It is a criminal offence and the medical officer will alone be held responsible.
7. When the ANM or STAFF NURSE is on leave then the local area vhn or other vhn can deputed to give injections.and they cannot deny it.
8. Under no compulsion or force shall another person be it a qualified private staff nurse or anm, should be allowed to give injection or drugs in the phc. It is a criminal offence and the medical officer will alone be held responsible
9. In case if only the pharmacist and the medical officer are alone in the phc and there is a need to administer injection then you give the injection and not the pharmacist.
10. If any problem [nerve palsy. Shock. Death ] arises when injections are given by incompetent person including the pharmacist the medical officer will alone be held responsible