Diseño de Distribución de Medicamentos por Dosis Unitaria en el Hospital Básico Sigchos, Provincia de Cotopaxi.

Abstract

A distribution design of medicines per unit dose in the Hospital Basic Sigchos, Province Cotopaxi was made. It proceeded to collect data from the Health Center Sigchos: frequency of attended patients, major morbidities, medicines consumption, factors of the Hospital on physical infrastructure, architectural plane, equipment, number of beds, portfolio of services, programming medicines approved by the Committee Medicine Therapeutic of the institution, the standard for the implementation of the distribution system / dispensing medicines per unit dose, were used in the hospitals of the National System of Health, issued in 2012 by the Public Health Ministry of Ecuador, the Guide for the Development of Pharmaceutical Services Hospital 1997 of the World Health Organization. The design describes an overview of hospital pharmacy, scope, responsibility, considerations and materials necessary for the implementation system, use of profile therapeutic medicine, staff functions and procedure described for Doctor (prescription), Pharmacist (pharmaceutical validation) and Nurse (administration). Also the morbidities were established being the severe infection of respiratory tract (41%), diarrhea and gastroenteritis of possible infectious origin (20%), intestinal parasitism infections (17%), undernourishment processes protein caloric (7%), this also allowed the generation of the services portfolio in hospital with clinical men (22%), clinical women (22%), pediatrics (24%), maternity (12%), surgery women (12%) and surgery men (8%) all of these services will be provided by the Hospital. The distribution design of medicines per unit dose in the Hospital Basic Sigchos was established, and approved by the District Director Health 050D05, Zonal Coordination Health No. 3, for the application of this system. It is recommended to implement the system and perform periodic evaluations to detect flaws and make corrections so justified in practice.