Thai hospital Siriraj set to introduce eight robots

 16-Mar-17, Bangkok Post 

Siriraj Hospital plans to introduce robots into the dispensing process at its pharmacies to improve patients' safety and speed up its services. Prasit Watanapa, Siriraj Hospital's Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, said the hospital will introduce eight robots into dispensary procedures to prepare medications for outpatients.

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The machines can help increase accuracy in preparing prescriptions and improve patient safety, he added.

Pharmacy procedures tend to be complicated these days, Dr Prasit said. Each patient tends to need more than one type of medicine for treatment which could increase the likelihood of a pharmacist's error, he added.

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