Question: How can I dispose prescription drugs?
– Dr Anil Jain, Nashik
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Tarun Katiyar
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Answer: Never flush prescription drugs down the toilet or drain unless the label or accompanying patient information specifically instructs you to do so. For drugs not labelled to be flushed, you may be able to take advantage of community pharmaceutical return programmes or other programmes, such as household hazardous waste collection events that collect drugs at a central location for proper disposal. Call your city or county government’s household trash and recycling service and ask if a safe drug disposal programme is available in your community
- If a drug return or disposal programme is not available in your community.
- Take your prescription drugs out of their original containers.
- Mix drugs with an undesirable substance such as cat litter or used coffee grounds.
- Put this mixture into a disposal container with a lid, such as an empty margarine tub or into a sealable bag.
- Conceal or remove any personal information, including Rx number, on the empty containers by covering it with a black permanent marker or duct tape, or by scratching it off.
- Place the sealed container with the mixture, and the empty drug containers, into the trash.
Waste management is preparing to launch environmentally-protective and safe solutions for the return and destruction of pharma products.
Question: What is hospital indemnity insurance and how is the hospital indemnity insurance benefit paid?
– Manish Malhotra, Bhopal
Answer: Hospital indemnity insurance is a type of plan that pays a set amount – per day, per week, per month, or per visit – if you are confined to a hospital. The hospital cash plan is a hospital indemnity insurance plan. When you experience a hospital confinement, outpatient surgery, or emergency accident or sickness, you submit a claim form along with the receipts for services received. You or your designer will receive a lump-sum payment as described in the policy. You or your designer can use the cash for whatever you choose.
Question: What is the objective of manpower planning in hospitals?
– Dr Kailash, Jodhpur
Answer: I think that is all to do with efficiency and saving money.In this context that means having an appropriate level of staff on duty at all times. So less doctors/nurses at quiet times in the middle of the night, but enough to handle an emergency if it happens. It should also take into consideration the maximum number of hours doctors can work, so they are not pushed too hard and should have arranged backups so people can be called in if someone is sick or cannot work.
Question: What is the objective of man power planning in a hospital?
– Dr Deepak Mehta, Surat
Answer: The objectives of manpower planning are very wide and varied. The most important ones are:
- Ensuring maximum utilisation of personnel.
- Assessing future requirements of the organisation.
- Anticipating from past records:
- Resignation
- Discharge simplicities
- Dismissals
- Retirement
- Determining recruitment sources.
- Determining training requirement for management development and organisation development.
Question: What are the objective of catering and vending services of hospital?
– Vishal Goyal, Dehradun
Answer: Objectives of in-house catering services:
- Provide a high quality catering service, responsive to your needs
- Aid your recovery with nutritionally healthy meals, cooked in the traditional way
- Provide a service that caters for all appetite and dietary requirements
- Provide an appetising and varied menu
- Deliver your exact meal requirements within the specified delivery time at the appropriate temperature
Objectives of Vending Services
- Vending hot drinks
- Cold can/bottle
- Mars confectionery
- All day vending snacks