2. All premises of the pharmacy facility must be combined into a single block, isolated from other facilities. It is allowed to enter the pharmacy facility through the premises of another organization.
3. The area of ​​the pharmacy facility must be sufficient for the implementation of pharmaceutical activities, taking into account its type and volume.
4. On the premises of pharmacy facilities, it is not allowed to place subdivisions that are not functionally related to the implementation of the activities provided for in Article 73 of this chapter.
5. Pharmacy facilities, depending on the type, must include at least the following premises:
a) for a pharmacy: a sales area, a reception and unpacking room, a material room, a staff room, an administration room, a bathroom. A pharmacy that also manufactures medicines must have, in addition to those listed: a room for the production of medicines (assistant), washing, distillation. For pharmacies engaged in the manufacture of sterile dosage forms, it is also necessary to have a sterilization room, which can be combined with a distillation room, and an aseptic box / block;
b) for a pharmacy: a sales area, a room or area for receiving and unpacking, for a material room and for personnel. Pharmacy workers should be provided with access to the use of a bathroom, which may be located in the building where the pharmacy is located;
c) for a pharmacy kiosk: a single room for one workplace without a trading floor. Pharmacy workers should be provided with access to the use of a bathroom, which may be located in the building where the pharmacy kiosk is located;
d) for a hospital and interhospital pharmacy: a room (area) for receiving and unpacking, a material room, a vacation room (area), a staff room, an administration room, a bathroom. A pharmacy that also manufactures drugs, should have, in addition to those listed: a room for the manufacture of medicines (assistant), washing, distillation. For pharmacies of hospital and interhospital pharmacies engaged in the manufacture of sterile dosage forms, it is also necessary to have a sterilization unit, which can be combined with a distillation unit, and an aseptic box / unit.
6. Internal surfaces of walls, ceilings, floors of premises of pharmacy facilities should allow wet cleaning with the use of disinfectants. The decoration of the administrative and amenity premises of the pharmacy facilities allows the use of wallpaper, carpets, parquet, oil paints etc.
7. Pharmacy facilities should be equipped with equipment appropriate to the volume and nature of the pharmaceutical activities carried out.
Premises for storing medicinal products should be equipped with equipment to ensure their proper storage, taking into account the physicochemical, pharmacological and toxicological properties during the established shelf life.

pharmacy medicinal performance scales

The composition, area, layout and equipment of the pharmacy premises are determined by the volume of work and production activities of the pharmacy. The minimum area of ​​a pharmacy is 90 sq.m. With the development of a pharmacy, its area should correspond to the volume and nature of the work performed. The composition of the premises and equipment of the pharmacy is determined taking into account the recommendations of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and SNiP.

The minimum composition of the pharmacy premises includes: a sales room, a room for preparing medicines, a room for obtaining distilled water, a washing room, a manager's office, a staff room, a room for storing medicines stocks, a toilet, a dressing room.

Pharmacy departments and their functions

Depending on the size of the annual turnover of state and communal pharmacies, they are divided into five groups according to the remuneration of administrative personnel. The amount of work also depends on organizational structure pharmacies, that is, the number of departments in them. So, in industrial pharmacies with a large annual turnover (the first group for wages), it is possible to open four departments, namely:

• - Inventory Department (functions: determining the current need for medicines and medical products, timely submission of orders for them, acceptance of goods in terms of quantity and quality, ensuring proper storage, organizing subject-quantitative accounting, conducting laboratory and packaging work, dispensing goods to other departments , separate structural divisions, medical and preventive institutions;
• - Prescription-production department (functions: reception of prescriptions for extemporal drugs, manufacture and registration of drugs, control of their quality, dispensing of drugs);
• - Department of finished dosage forms (functions: reception of prescriptions for finished pharmaceuticals of pharmaceutical and industrial production and their dispensing);
• - OTC sales department (functions: sale of over-the-counter medicines, as well as medical products).

In pharmacies with a smaller volume of work (the second and third groups on remuneration), it is possible to organize two departments. Moreover, depending on the specifics of the work, the possible options are:

• a) department of stocks and department of prescription and production, finished dosage forms and over-the-counter sales;
• b) department of prescription and production with stocks and department of finished dosage forms and over-the-counter sales;
• c) department of prescription and production, stocks and finished dosage forms and department of over-the-counter sales.

There are no departments in other industrial pharmacies (the fourth and fifth pay groups).

It should be emphasized that in pharmacies of finished dosage forms with a large volume of work (first and second groups), it is possible to organize only two departments: a department for dispensing finished dosage forms according to doctors' prescriptions and an over-the-counter sales department.

In pharmacies, a distinction is made between production and service premises. An industrial pharmacy is a room intended for the manufacture, assembly, dispensing, control and storage of medicines. These include: a service room, an assistant's room, a filling room, a distillation room, a washing room, a cocktail room (a room for the manufacture of water extracts from vegetable raw materials), a sterilization room, a chemist-analyst's office. material rooms, a room for serving the population at night, and the like.

Accommodation industrial premises should exclude counter flows of the technological process of manufacturing drugs under aseptic conditions and non-sterile drugs.

The public service hall, material rooms are equipped with special furniture, which is allowed for storing medicines and medical products.

The room for the manufacture of non-sterile medicines is equipped with special production equipment and devices. In this room, it is allowed to organize a workplace to control the quality and packaging of medicines.

The room for receiving purified water is equipped with devices, a capacity for receiving and storing water. The receipt of water for injection is carried out in a separate room of the aseptic unit, where it is strictly forbidden to perform any work that is not related to the receipt of water for injection.

The room for storing stocks of medicines is equipped with racks, cabinets, a refrigerator and other equipment in order to ensure storage conditions for poisonous, narcotic, psychotropic, potent, flammable, thermolabile and other medicines, medicinal plant materials, medical products in accordance with current requirements.

A utility room pharmacy is a room for the implementation of administrative and economic functions. These include: the manager's office, accounting, staff room, dressing room, toilet (dressing room), shower room, staff training room, cleaning room, etc.

The staff room should be equipped with a refrigerator, for organizing food consumption, as well as staff rest.

The premise and equipment of the dressing room must ensure the safety of personal and technological clothing in accordance with the requirements of the sanitary and epidemiological regime of pharmacies.

Shopping room. The minimum size of a trading floor is 20 sq. m. In the trading floor, depending on the volume of work of the pharmacy, workplaces should be equipped for receiving prescriptions, dispensing manufactured and finished drugs by prescription, dispensing drugs and medical products without prescriptions. Each workplace is equipped with a sectional table with drawers for storing current stocks of medicines and other pharmaceutical goods. On the front side of each table, there should be a glass window with a pass-through window.

According to the rules, there is a book of reviews and suggestions in the trading floor, announcements are posted. Copies of the license and the following information must be posted:

• - on extraordinary services for disabled people and participants in the Second World War;
• - about the shelf life of medicines manufactured in the pharmacy;
• - about the work of the duty administrator;
• - about the hours of reception of the population by the director of the pharmacy;
• - about the information desk;
• - on supervisory and regulatory bodies;
• - about employees serving visitors, indicating the surname, name, patronymic and position.

A pharmacy with a minimum sales area can have one workplace. Payment of the cost of medicines by the population should be made through the cash register.

The area of ​​the room for the preparation of medicines must be at least 15 sq. M. and is equipped with special pharmacy furniture, devices, equipment for preparation, mixing, filtering, packaging, labeling, packaging and sealing of drugs, as well as safes for storing poisonous and narcotic drugs, ethyl alcohol, rod eyes, means for measuring weight, volume, specific gravity, reagents for chemical control of drugs.

In the drug preparation room, workplaces should be organized for the preparation and quality control of drugs. Depending on the amount of work and the increase in the area of ​​the assistant room, specialized jobs can be created for the manufacture of various dosage forms.

The manufacture of medicines requires the most favorable sanitary and hygienic conditions. Penetration from the street of dust, microorganisms, cold air currents, noise, etc. will inevitably affect the health of workers and the quality of medicinal products. Therefore, in the planning and construction of pharmacies, much attention is paid to entrances through which various pollution and cold air can enter the pharmacy.

Pharmacies have two entrances: for visitors and staff, and for receiving goods. The entrance for visitors to pharmacies of 1 and 2 categories must have two doors, and in pharmacies of 3 and 4 categories - one single-leaf door with a width of at least 0.9 m. The door of the service entrance and reception of goods must be 1.2 m wide.

The entrance for visitors is equipped with a vestibule serving as a protective barrier. The doors in the vestibule should be located at an angle to each other so that the cold air has time to warm up before it enters the trading floor. If there is an air heat curtain in the vestibule, the usual arrangement of doors is possible: one door against another. The temperature of the supplied air should be within the range of 30-35 ° С.

The minimum area of ​​the room for obtaining distilled water is 5 sq. M. Its equipment must ensure compliance with the requirements for sanitary regime pharmacies and it is prohibited to carry out other work not related to the distillation of water. The room should be equipped with devices for receiving and containers for storing distilled water in accordance with the current rules on the sanitary regime of pharmacies. Autoclave area - at least 10 sq. M.

In the absence of a separate room, it is necessary to isolate the distilled water receiver so that dust and microorganisms from the air do not enter it. This is achieved by placing the receiver in a glazed box, painted outside and inside with white oil paint.

For additional protection of distilled water from contamination by volatile substances, there are several devices: a glass cover with a glass tube that connects to the refrigerator, a special sulphate protective lock attached to the receiver, a stopper with a calcium chloride tube fixed to the condenser.

Some pharmacies have special installations for the automatic supply of distilled water through a glass or polyethylene pipe directly to the assistant's tables. This eliminates the need for manual delivery of distilled water to workplaces and eliminates the risk of contamination. To disinfect water, separate sections of the pipeline are assembled from quartz glass tubes, through which the water is irradiated with a bactericidal lamp.

The washing room has a minimum area of ​​5 sq.m. Its equipment must ensure compliance with the requirements for the sanitary regime of pharmacies. In the washing room, sinks for washing dishes intended for the preparation of dosage forms should be highlighted and marked:

• - injection solutions and eye drops;
• - intravenous;
• - outdoor.

Premises for storing stocks of medicines and medical products must have a minimum area of ​​at least 36 sq. M. and equipped with shelving, wardrobes and other necessary equipment to ensure the safety of poisonous, narcotic, potent, flammable, thermolabile and other medicines, medicinal plants, medical products in accordance with their physicochemical properties. Subject to separate liability, each department of the pharmacy must have one or more such premises.

The procedure for storing medicines and medical devices is regulated by Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation No. 377 dated November 13, 1996. Compliance with this instruction allows maintaining the high quality of medicines and creating safe working conditions for pharmacists when working with them.

Special attention is given to the storage, prescribing, accounting and dispensing of poisonous and drugs... Correct storage of drugs depends on the correct and rational organization of storage, strict accounting of its movement, regular monitoring of the expiration dates of drugs.

It is also very important to maintain the optimal temperature and humidity of the air, to observe the protection of certain drugs from light.

Rooms and safes with narcotic and especially poisonous substances must have an alarm, and there must be metal bars on the windows.

The equipment of storage rooms should ensure the safety of medicines. These rooms are provided with fire-fighting equipment, the required temperature and air humidity are maintained in them.

Heating of the room should be carried out by central heating devices, the use of gas appliances with an open flame or electrical appliances with an open spiral is excluded.

Staff room - at least 8 sq.m. and is equipped with furniture for eating and resting employees. The dressing room area should provide storage of home and work clothes in accordance with the requirements for the sanitary regime of pharmacies.

Additional premises. To fulfill its main task, a pharmacy must have additional premises:

• - aseptic unit for the preparation of aseptic and sterile dosage forms;
• - autoclave;
• - office of the pharmacist-analyst;
• - room for the production of pyrogen-free water;
• - premises for storing flammable, thermolabile and other medicines requiring special conditions storage in accordance with their physical and chemical properties.

The location of production facilities should exclude counter flows of the technological process for the manufacture of sterile and non-sterile medicines.

Pharmacy equipment and furnishings

The equipment of a pharmacy serving the population is regulated by the Model Norms for the technical and economic equipment of pharmacies and pharmacies, which recommend:

• - an approximate set of production equipment and special pharmacy furniture;
• - apparatuses, instruments, small mechanization means for manufacturing, mixing, filtering, packing, capping, labeling;
• - production and household equipment.

To carry out intra-pharmacy quality control of medicines manufactured in a pharmacy, the pharmacy must be provided with devices and reagents. All instruments and devices must have technical certificates, maintenance and repair of equipment must be carried out in a timely manner, control and verification of weighing instruments must be regularly carried out by metrological services.

In industrial pharmacies that manufacture eye drops and sterile dosage forms, physicochemical and microbiological control of the quality of distilled water and medicines must be carried out.

The surface of the pharmacy equipment, both outside and inside, should be smooth, made of materials resistant to the effects of drugs and chemicals.

Equipment and pharmacy furniture should be located so as not to leave places inaccessible for cleaning and not to obstruct the light source, not to obstruct the aisles.

It is forbidden to place in production facilities equipment that is not related to the work performed on a specific site, as well as storage of stocks of medicines, parapharmaceutical products, etc. in the corridors and in production facilities.

Equipment intended for the manufacture of sterile dosage forms must undergo validation - confirmation of the ability of equipment and auxiliary systems to operate reliably, taking into account permissible deviations.

Processing, washing, drying, sterilization of dishes, which are carried out on the basis of the order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation No. 309 dated 21.10.97 "On the approval of instructions on the sanitary regime of pharmacy organizations (pharmacies)."

The quality of dispensed drugs and their shelf life largely depend on the cleanliness of the dishes. During transportation, pharmaceutical utensils are contaminated with dust and packaging materials (straw, shavings, etc.), which can contain a wide variety of pathogenic microbes, tetanus spores, gas gangrene bacteria, etc. Therefore, all utensils should be carefully cleaned, degreased, washed and decontaminated ( Appendix 10 to the Instruction on the Sanitary Regime of Pharmacy Organizations (Pharmacies) Order No. 309 dated October 21, 1997).

Glassware processing includes the following technological operations:

• - disinfection;
• - soaking and washing (or washing and disinfecting treatment);
• - rinsing;
• - drying (or sterilization);
• - quality control of processing.

The composition, area, layout and equipment of the pharmacy premises are determined by the volume of work and production activities of the pharmacy. The minimum area of ​​a pharmacy is 90 sq.m. With the development of a pharmacy, its area should correspond to the volume and nature of the work performed. The composition of the premises and equipment of the pharmacy is determined taking into account the recommendations of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and SNiP.

The minimum composition of the pharmacy premises includes: a sales room, a room for preparing medicines, a room for obtaining distilled water, a washing room, a manager's office, a staff room, a room for storing medicines stocks, a toilet, a dressing room.

Shopping room... The minimum size of a trading floor is 20 sq. m. In the trading floor, depending on the volume of work of the pharmacy, workplaces should be equipped for receiving prescriptions, dispensing manufactured and finished drugs by prescription, dispensing drugs and medical products without prescriptions. Each workplace is equipped with a sectional table with drawers for storing current stocks of medicines and other pharmaceutical goods. On the front side of each table, there should be a glass window with a pass-through window.

According to the rules, there is a book of reviews and suggestions in the trading floor, announcements are posted. Copies of the license and the following information must be posted:

On extraordinary services for disabled people and participants in the Second World War;

About the shelf life of medicines manufactured in a pharmacy;

On the work of the administrator on duty;

About the hours of reception of the population by the director of the pharmacy;

About the information desk;

On supervisory and regulatory bodies;

About employees serving visitors, indicating the surname, name, patronymic and position.

A pharmacy with a minimum sales area can have one workplace. Payment of the cost of medicines by the population should be made through the cash register.

Square drug preparation rooms must be at least 15 sq.m. and is equipped with special pharmacy furniture, devices, equipment for preparation, mixing, filtering, packaging, labeling, packaging and sealing of drugs, as well as safes for storing poisonous and narcotic drugs, ethyl alcohol, rod-eyes, means for measuring weight, volume, specific gravity, reagents for chemical control of drugs.

In the drug preparation room, workplaces should be organized for the preparation and quality control of drugs. Depending on the amount of work and the increase in the area of ​​the assistant room, specialized jobs can be created for the manufacture of various dosage forms.

The manufacture of medicines requires the most favorable sanitary and hygienic conditions. Penetration from the street of dust, microorganisms, cold air currents, noise, etc. will inevitably affect the health of workers and the quality of medicinal products. Therefore, in the planning and construction of pharmacies, much attention is paid to entrances through which various pollution and cold air can enter the pharmacy.

Pharmacies have two entrances: for visitors and staff, and for receiving goods. The entrance for visitors to pharmacies of 1 and 2 categories must have two doors, and in pharmacies of 3 and 4 categories - one single-leaf door with a width of at least 0.9 m. The door of the service entrance and reception of goods must be 1.2 m wide.

The entrance for visitors is equipped with a vestibule serving as a protective barrier. The doors in the vestibule should be located at an angle to each other so that the cold air has time to warm up before it enters the trading floor. If there is an air heat curtain in the vestibule, the usual arrangement of doors is possible: one door against another. The temperature of the supplied air should be within the range of 30-35 ° С.

Minimum area rooms for distilled water- 5 sq.m. Its equipment must ensure that the requirements for the sanitary regime of the pharmacy are met and it is prohibited to carry out other work not related to the distillation of water. The room should be equipped with devices for receiving and containers for storing distilled water in accordance with the current rules on the sanitary regime of pharmacies. Square autoclave- not less than 10 sq. m.

In the absence of a separate room, it is necessary to isolate the distilled water receiver so that dust and microorganisms from the air do not enter it. This is achieved by placing the receiver in a glazed box, painted outside and inside with white oil paint.

For additional protection of distilled water from contamination by volatile substances, there are several devices: a glass cover with a glass tube that connects to the refrigerator, a special sulphate protective lock attached to the receiver, a stopper with a calcium chloride tube fixed to the condenser.

Some pharmacies have special installations for the automatic supply of distilled water through a glass or polyethylene pipe directly to the assistant's tables. This eliminates the need for manual delivery of distilled water to workplaces and eliminates the risk of contamination. To disinfect water, separate sections of the pipeline are assembled from quartz glass tubes, through which the water is irradiated with a bactericidal lamp.

Washing room has a minimum area of ​​5 sq.m. Its equipment must ensure compliance with the requirements for the sanitary regime of pharmacies. In the washing room, sinks for washing dishes intended for the preparation of dosage forms should be highlighted and marked:

Injection solutions and eye drops;

Intravenous;

Outdoor.

Premises for storing stocks of medicines and medical products must have a minimum area of ​​at least 36 sq.m. and equipped with racks, cabinets and other necessary equipment to ensure the safety of poisonous, narcotic, potent, flammable, thermolabile and other medicines, medicinal plants, medical products in accordance with their physical and chemical properties. Subject to separate liability, each department of the pharmacy must have one or more such premises.

The procedure for storing medicines and medical devices is regulated by Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation No. 377 dated November 13, 1996. Compliance with this instruction allows maintaining the high quality of medicines and creating safe working conditions for pharmacists when working with them.

Particular attention is paid to the storage, prescribing, accounting and dispensing of poisonous and narcotic drugs. Correct storage of drugs depends on the correct and rational organization of storage, strict accounting of its movement, regular monitoring of the expiration dates of drugs.

It is also very important to maintain the optimal temperature and humidity of the air, to observe the protection of certain drugs from light.

Rooms and safes with narcotic and especially poisonous substances must have an alarm, and there must be metal bars on the windows.

The equipment of storage rooms should ensure the safety of medicines. These rooms are provided with fire-fighting equipment, the required temperature and air humidity are maintained in them.

Heating of the room should be carried out by central heating devices, the use of gas appliances with an open flame or electrical appliances with an open spiral is excluded.

Staff room- not less than 8 sq.m. and is equipped with furniture for eating and resting employees. Square dressing room must ensure the storage of home and work clothes in accordance with the requirements for the sanitary regime of pharmacies.

Additional premises. To fulfill its main task, a pharmacy must have additional premises:

Aseptic unit for the preparation of aseptic and sterile dosage forms;

Autoclave;

Pharmacist analyst's office;

Premises for obtaining pyrogen-free water;

Premises for storing flammable, thermolabile and other medicines requiring special storage conditions in accordance with their physicochemical properties.

The location of production facilities should exclude counter flows of the technological process for the manufacture of sterile and non-sterile medicines.

Much attention is paid to the rational arrangement and equipment of the pharmacy. To solve this problem, pharmaceutical research institutions and departments of higher educational institutions have been involved and are currently continuing to work fruitfully.

The pharmacy should be arranged and equipped in such a way as to guarantee: the correct preparation and dispensing of medicines, conditions for high labor productivity of pharmacy workers, compliance with the necessary sanitary and hygienic standards in the premises and at each workplace, the correct storage of medicines and the necessary cultural environment for pharmacy visitors.

For the better implementation of the assigned tasks, certain departments are organized in pharmacies:

Stocks;

Prescription and production;

Finished medicines;

OTC dispensing (manual sale).

The dimensions of the premises in accordance with the volume of the pharmacy are determined by special standards approved by the Ministry of Health.

Very important for the productive work of the pharmacy correct location and the relationship between pharmacies. All pharmacy premises must be dry and meet sanitary and hygienic requirements.

Pharmacies usually consist of these rooms:

Reception(waiting for visitors). In the reception room of the pharmacy, the usual furniture for visitors is placed; display cases with drug samples, exhibitions from health education and a handicraft department equipped with counters and glass cabinets.

Prescription- a room or part of a room, separated from the receiving glass partition, in which there should be windows for receiving prescriptions and dispensing prepared medicines, a pharmacist-technologist's (prescription) table and rotating units with shelves and drawers for medicines prepared for vacation.

Assistant- This is a room for the preparation of medicines, usually isolated from other rooms. Equipped with special assistant tables with turntables, on which the most popular medicines are placed.

In large pharmacies, assistant tables are specially equipped, of which some serve only for the preparation of ointments, others for powders, and others for liquids, etc. Tables adapted for the preparation of liquid medicines are equipped with burette systems and sets of pipettes.

In the assistant's room there are cabinets for storing small amounts of poisonous and potent medicinal substances.

Sterilization-aseptic unit is a special room for the preparation of sterile and aseptic medicinal products. Usually this unit consists of a sterilization room, a vestibule and an aseptic room. If the required number of rooms is not available, this block can be placed in one room.

Coctorium- this is a room in which water extracts (infusions, decoctions) are prepared, purified water is obtained, other technological operations related to heating are carried out. Coctorium is equipped with infundirny or distillation-infundir apparatus, alembic still.

Material room is a room designed for storing supplies of medicines and other sanitary and hygienic items. Equipped with special material cabinets.

Washing room- this is a special room designed for washing dishes, various appliances. It has a cold and hot water, as well as special devices for washing dishes. Equipped with cabinets for drying and storing clean dishes.

Basement- This is a room where stocks of medicines are stored, which must be stored in a cool and dark place. Equipped with shelving and wardrobes. For the storage of flammable substances, a refractory concrete storage facility with iron doors is provided.

In addition to the indicated rooms, the pharmacy should have: a manager's office, a room for a pharmacist on duty, a control and analytical room or a table, a staff room, a first aid room, and a filling room. In small pharmacies, it is possible to combine departments in one room.

The material room in the pharmacy is a kind of pantry where pharmaceutical products in all their diversity are stored and prepared for sale. Typically, such "health pantries" are placed on the first or basement floors of the premises.

There are pharmaceutical products that do not require special storage conditions: sufficient cleanliness, tightness, normal humidity and room temperature. Vaccines, serums, antibiotics, organic preparations, mineral water and others that need "cold", pharmaceutical products, as well as bulky items and products that do not fit with pharmaceuticals in terms of storage, such as: dishes, flammable liquids, fish fat in cylinders and other "delights" - trust the basement coolness. Medicines, ready for sale, are transferred from there to refrigerators.

The location of the material rooms of the pharmacy on the ground floor is convenient and expedient: this guarantees proximity to the pharmacy's sales area, as well as to the unpacking / sorting area of ​​products and to other premises of the pharmacy, "tied" to work with the flow of goods.

Photo - Pharmacy storage systems in the material room

The requirements for the material rooms of pharmacies are somewhat stringent and categorical. The rules for storing goods in them are spelled out in a separate order of the Ministry of Health with more than twenty years of "experience", the main points of which are as follows:

• It is customary to store pharmaceutical goods in special conditions, which are specified in a separate instruction. First of all, this is a certain humidity and temperature, for which each material room must have a thermometer and a hygrometer, the readings of which are taken by employees at least once a day.
• The preservation of medicines (preparations) in their original form is the most important task of pharmacists. The most important thing is not to damage them in any way.
• Medicines in "materials" they are strictly sorted. Separately from each other, drugs are placed according to toxicological and pharmacological groups. Separately and according to the requirements - poisonous, drugs and potent. "Internal" - separate from "external", liquid - from gaseous and bulk. The nature of dosage forms and their physicochemical properties also play an important role in sorting, not to mention shelf life.
• Medical products are divided into: rubber, plastic, medical equipment, dressings and auxiliary materials. So they store it in groups.

Photo - Material pharmacy room, standard version

The equipment of the material rooms of a pharmacy is a task that presupposes knowledge of their specifics. After all, the furniture and equipment installed in them must meet certain requirements. Namely:

• In the pantries, it is imperative to install such furniture elements as: racks, cabinets, podkarovye and safes in the amount necessary for the needs of the pharmacy enterprise.
• The racks are moved from the outer wall by 60-70 cm, they leave an indent of half a meter to the ceiling, and at least a quarter of a meter from the floor.
• The racks are spaced at least 70 cm from each other (otherwise they cannot squeeze through), sources of natural or artificial light illuminate the aisles well.

Photo - cabinets for storing drugs in the material room of the pharmacy

Both finished preparations and medicines used for their manufacture are stored in material rooms. Therefore, cabinets are the main type of equipment that is used there. They also have a number of requirements:

• it is better to make them from durable, wear-resistant materials that can be subjected to repeated treatment with detergents: wood, chipboard, metal, etc.
• storage cabinets are usually used in "materials":

1. medicines;
2. medicines in their original packaging;
3. medical products, dishes and equipment.

• they also distinguish cabinets for general and special purposes, in the latter they store plant raw materials, oxygen cylinders and pillows, rubber products, medical glass containers and other pharmaceutical and medical "exotic".

Photo - cabinets for the material room of the pharmacy

An important point- creation of the microclimate specified in the special instructions in the “pharmacy pantry”: temperature regime, humidity and other parameters. Air purity is maintained by exhaust ventilation or periodic ventilation.

Photo - open cabinets for storing goods