Evaluación del cumplimiento de buenas prácticas de almacenamiento, distribución y transporte de medicamentos y dispositivos médicos en el servicio de farmacia del Hospital Luis G. Dávila, Tulcán

Abstract

The Good Practices for Storage, Distribution and Transportation of medicines and medical devices are a set of mandatory basic standards for pharmaceutical institutions, non-compliance with this regulation can cause damage at a microbiological level, therapeutic activity, economic losses, among others. For this reason, this research project had the objective of evaluating the compliance of BPADT of medicines and medical devices in the pharmacy service of the Hospital Luis G Dávila, Tulcán, through a quantitative, descriptive and non-experimental study, applying a check list obtained from the current regulations of the year 2022 in the country and adapted to the pertinence of the hospital. Having thus, in its initial stage obtained in the month of November 2022, after applying the checklist, the 1-TLGD had a compliance of 53.33%, qualifying this value as medium compliance, it was observed that, of the 9 parameters evaluated, the one with the lowest compliance was that of documentation in general. For this reason, corrective measures were prepared and applied, such as the preparation of SOPs for the activities, in addition, staff training was done, the missing signage was located, and the delimitation of the areas within the storage was done, among other measures. Once these measures were applied, a second evaluation was performed, where it was obtained that compliance with the applied checklist increased to 91.15%, thus achieving high compliance with the regulations, the remaining percentage of non-compliance was reflected in the parameters: infrastructure, equipment and materials. It is recommended that staff continue to implement the BPADT, ongoing staff training and assessment, and improvement plans to ensure that medications and medical devices are safe and effective.