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Supply of medicines for use in hospitals,
etc.
Storage of poisons in institutions.
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 5, 1939.
(4) The container of the medicine must be labelled-- (a) with a designation and address sufficient to identify the hospital, infirmary, dispensary or institution from which it was supplied;
(b) except in the case of a medicine made up ready for treatment, with the word "Poison";
(c) in the case of a poison supplied from a veterinary hospital, with the words "For animal treatment only”;
and in the case of a medicine to which Regulation 19 applies the requirements of that Regulation shall be satisfied in addition to the requirements aforesaid.
26.--(1) This and the next following Regulation apply to any hospital, infirmary, dispensary, clinic, nursing home or other institution at which human ailments are treated (hereinafter referred to as "an institution").
(2) In any institution in which medicines are dispensed in a dispensing or pharmaceutical department in charge of a registered pharmacist or any other person approved by the Director of Medical Services 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 the following provisions of this Regulation.
(3) The medicines must not be supplied except upon a written order signed by a duly registered medical practitioner, registered dental surgeon, or by a sister or nurse in charge of a ward, theatre or other section of the institution.
(4) The container of the medicine must be labelled--- (a) with words describing its contents;
(b) in the case of substances included in the First List to these Regulations, 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.
27.—(1) In any institution in which medicines are dis- pensed in a dispensing or pharmaceutical department in charge of a person appointed for the purpose, all poisons other than those issued for use within the institution must be stored in that department.
(2) In any institution to which the foregoing paragrapli does not apply all poisons other than those issued for use within the institution must be stored-
(a) in charge of a person appointed for the purpose by the governing body or person in control of the institution; and (6) in the case of substances which are included in the First List to these Regulations either in a cupboard or drawer, or on a shelf, reserved solely for the storage of poisons.
In Ek case where a poison is stored on a shelf. the container of the poison must be rendered distinguishable by touch from the containers of articles other than poisons stored on the same premises.