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 Wednesday the hospital will introduce eight robots into dispensary procedures to prepare medications for outpatients. On top of that, the machines will speed up the hospital's pharmacy services, Dr Prasit noted. Dr Prasit said the hospital is constantly improving its pharmacy services but satisfaction levels remain low due to the increasing number of patients. Visit Wamwanich, Siriraj Hospital's director, said his hospital set an ambitious target to achieve zero errors after the robots are introduced.

Source: Bangkok Post March 15, 2017 23:53 UTC