We are referring to oral liquid medicines, such as syrups or herbal medicines, from the central pharmacy to the patients. This is a repetitive and little-questioned task.
The big issue is that these doses in vials are not always consumed in their entirety, and waste occurs when the patient has a medical report, the medication vial remains in the room or the patient ends up taking it home.
When fractionation occurs in the pharmacy, syringes are normally used as packaging, generating waste at the end of the bottle where the syringe cannot reach. And of course, we must calculate the cost of these syringes, as well as the cost of labor and all the problems inherent to this manual process.
Let's study a case:
A hospital with 230 beds in the city of São Paulo:
It sends 1.200 bottles of liquid medicines to its patients each month. The average cost of bottles is R$50,00, however there are bottles of antibiotics that cost more at around R$80,00.
Let's calculate with bottles costing R$50,00:
1200 bottles x R$50,00 = R$60.000,00
So, through this expense, how much can this hospital save?
No less than 30%, a possible saving of R$18.000,00.
Discounting the cost of packaging: R$1.200,00 x R$0,12 = R$144,00 per month.
Net savings of R$ 17.856,00
A Opuspac has a solution to contribute to this economy:
Equipment cost Opus MK5
Return on investment ROI = 6 months
Now do the calculations using your hospital’s values.
There must have already been situations of disallowance, where the health insurer did not want to pay for a vial and only pay for one dose.
With this original packaging (Patent PI 0105649-2NPI061) you will not need to transfer it to another utensil to dispense, just make the dose available to the patient who will drink it directly in their mouth.
