Singapore legislation
Regulation 30
Regulation 30
Supply of medicines for use in hospitals, etc.
Subregulation 1
This rule and rule 31 shall apply to any hospital, infirmary, dispensary, clinic, nursing home or other institutions at which human ailments are treated (referred to in this rule and in rule 31 as an institution).
Subregulation 2
In any institution in which medicines are dispensed in a dispensing or pharmaceutical department in the charge of a person appointed for that purpose, no medicine containing a poison shall be supplied from that department, except in cases of emergency, for use in the wards, operating theatres or other sections of the institution, except in accordance with the requirements contained in paragraphs (3), (4) and (5).
Subregulation 3
The medicines shall only be supplied upon a written order signed by a medical practitioner, dentist, or by a registered nurse in charge of a ward, theatre or other section of the institution.
Subregulation 4
The container of the medicine shall be labelled —
with words describing its contents; and (b)in the case of substances included in the First Schedule (other than thermolabile substances), with a distinguishing mark or other indication indicating that the poison is to be stored in a cupboard reserved solely for the storage of poisons.
Subregulation 5
The container of a poison shall —
be impervious to the poison and sufficiently stout to prevent leakage arising from the ordinary risks of handling and transport; and (b)where the poison is a liquid of a quantity of less than 2.5 litres, not being a liquid made up ready to be taken for the internal treatment of human ailments and not being a local anaesthetic for injection in the treatment of human ailments, be a bottle the outer surface of which is fluted vertically with ribs or grooves recognisable by touch.