In-patient Services

NHF recently introduced a pilot Mobile Dispensing Unit for patients in hospital, which allows for the dispensation of medication on demand at the bedside. This new innovation is expected to reduce waiting time and improve the patient’s quality of life as well as assist nurses in ward management and improve the cost efficiency of the institution. 

From these units drugs will be dispensed to the patients while they are being treated on the ward and at the point of being discharged from the hospital.  Before patients are discharged the pharmacist will offer bedside counseling while medication for children and the elderly will be dispensed to parents/guardian or caregiver or dispensed from the main pharmacy if these persons are not present on the ward at the time of the patients’ discharge.