Buddhachinaraj Hospital unveils robot to dispense cancer drugs
Phitsanulok’s Buddhachinaraj Hospital has unveiled the country’s first robot to provide medicines for cancer treatments.
The “Health Robotics” device, which will be used from August, will boost the efficiency and accuracy in medicine mixing, is part of the hospital’s strategy to respond to the country’s ‘Healthcare 4.0’ policy.
It will relieve hospital personnel from having to perform the duty and aid the public hospital to achieve its aim of being a centre for cancer medicine distribution to regional or private hospitals, said the head of the hospital’s pharmacy department, Jirawat Suwannakij.
He said the hospital served as a centre for cancer treatments to people in Phitsanulok and nearby provinces and each day pharmacists produced about 120 to 200 dosages of cancer drugs.
The Italian-made robot, with a capacity to produce up to 40 dosages per hour would be a big help, he said.
Songkhla’s Hat Yai Hospital is reportedly in a process installing a similar device.