As you've probably gathered from the last few blogs, our pharmacy has been in a bit of trouble lately with regards to, well, everything to do with it. We've been without a pharmacist since January 27th when Monique left us, the depot has been very erratic with our orders and we've been without many vital drugs for long periods of time – basically 98 days of semi-organised chaos. However, last Tuesday was a day of major wins for the pharmacy :D
First of all we got an enormous delivery from the depot. The boxes took up almost all the available floor space and opening them all was like Christmas! Among the items we welcomed back into stock were non-giant sized gloves, syringes of volumes more practical than 2ml, paracetamol, loperamide, water for injection, erythromycin, amoxycillin suspension, methyldopa [apparently very useful in maternity], IV klaforan [apparently very useful for everything], hypodermic needles that weren't of knitting needle gauge, cannulas, warfarin, aspirin...
Sadly, we couldn't find any IV antibiotics except the klaforan which was a bit disastrous since this is, err, a hospital which has patients in it which, err, need IV antibiotics every now and then. Then, out of nowhere, this giant unopened box appeared and I opened it to reveal a range of stock that we have been wishing for for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages, including [fanfare please] the antibiotics :D Good times all round!
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| IV antibiotics! YAY! |
So you can see why the four of us in the pharmacy were in a very VERY good mood already when Ben came in and announced that Bonga, our new pharmacist was on the road to Zithulele as we spoke. Cue mass excitement in the pharmacy and huge grins all round! We hurriedly packed all the stock away, tidied all the random stuff that had accumulated on the work surfaces until eventually the place looked almost as good as it did when Monique left :) It will be the start of a new Zithulele pharmacy era :D
EPIC PHARMACY WIN.
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| The pharmacy in its clean and tidy glory |
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