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ScribdTranslationsCOLOMBIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
ICOSALUD
STORAGE AND
HANDLING OF
MEDICATIONS AND
MEDICAL DEVICES
Camilo Bastidas Guarnizo
Pharmaceutical chemist
[email protected]
STORAGE OF MEDICINES AND MEDICAL
MATERIALS
> Administrative technical process that consists of storing
or placing medical supplies in the warehouse or
pharmacy according to Good Storage Practices (GAP),
which guarantee the maintenance of quality and safety
until their distribution or use.
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COLOMBIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
ICOSALUD
The storage process
The storage process aims to ensure the quality of
health supplies so that they fulfill their function,
establishing the necessary location, physical,
hygienic and infrastructure conditions.
The storage process
Adequate storage conditions must guarantee:
• 0 The quality of medicines until their use
• □ Therapeutic efficacy
• 0 avoid deterioration or accelerated aging of
inputs
BPA- Factors to Consider:
The products should not be in contact with walls or the
floor.
> Shelves installed against exterior walls must have a back
panel and be installed with air clearance.
HEAT: |
> Install an air conditioning unit to ensure adequate
temperature.
BPA- Factors to Consider
Stocks of stored products must be documented and
reviewed periodically.
The sale of products must be carried out according to
systems that ensure adequate rotation of the products.
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> Personnel must have experience and qualifications to
perform the tasks for which they are responsible.
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STORAGE AREAS.
The place where the supplies that will be required will
be stored must allow the
medications to be separated
from other health supplies.
The medicine storage area
can be divided into several
zones:
• Reception area.
• Quarantine area.
• Storage area itself.
STORAGE AREAS.
• Packaging and dispatch area.
Reception area
Space dedicated exclusively to placing orders made to
the supplier at the moment
of your arrival while
undergoing the reception
process.
Quarantine area and
Returns.
Adjacent to the reception area, there must be an area
intended to store products that
cannot be distributed: they did
not meet any requirement in the
process of
reception, returns to the supplier
due to early expiration, etc.
Packaging and dispatch area.
Intended for the preparation of products for
distribution or dispensing.
Storage area
It represents the area
intended for the storage of
products that are suitable for
distribution.
Factors that lead or help
us define a storage area:
> Purchase method.
> Number of inputs
handled by the institution.
Storage area
> Growth of the institution.
Storage area
proper
In this area we can find:
• Complete packaging area.
• Shelving area.
• Refrigeration Zone.
• Control or security area.
Storage area
Complete packaging area:
Space in which the supplies
are located that, due to
their quantity, come in
packaging.
complete; that is, complete
boxes of a product.
Storage area
Shelving area:
Space in which the shelves are
located on which medications
that are not in complete
packaging are stored, that is,
medications ready for “retail.”
Storage area
Cooling Zone:
Site in which medications that
require refrigeration are
located, such as
vaccines, some anesthetics,
insulin among others. EBEEZER P ORIAUL 100 - 220V V 12V
0 24V
Evaporator with
frozen packages
temperature during
power outages Water receiving tray
Storage of
vaccines in"
cabinet
Regilla
Thermostat set
with tape
First level: APO, MMR,
Thermometer SR, AMA, HVB, HiB
s ARH vaccines
Second and third level
DPT, adult DT, pediatric
DT, Pentavalent), BCG.
Cold stabilizers
Storage area
Control or security area:
Location in which special control
products and those that are more
expensive for the institution must be
stored.
• Delivery area: Site in which Special control
orders are placed ready to be
medications.
delivered to the different High cost medications
services.
• Administrative area: It is the space required
Storage area
for the person responsible for the
Pharmaceutical Service or warehouse, where
they must accommodate their desk and the
file.
• Health services area
Storage area location
This area must meet certain requirements for its location within
the institution:
• Be optimal and do not interfere with the reception, storage
and distribution processes.
Storage area
• Easy receipt of orders from suppliers, security, drainage,
sales to the public.
• Away from sources of contamination.
In order to take these parameters into account, and if there are
several alternatives to locate the Pharmaceutical Service or the
warehouse, they must be
assign numerical values to each of the mentioned criteria and
make a classification of the possible areas, selecting the one
that obtains the highest score.
