Medicines are an important safeguard for our body and health, and hospitals, as medical institutions, are obliged to provide patients with high-quality and safe medicines. However, in recent years, some patients would ask for refund and exchange after purchasing drugs sold by hospitals, which has caused different views and discussions. In this article, we will analyze the reasons why hospital-sold drugs should not be supported to be returned or exchanged from several aspects.
1. Drugs are a special product used to treat diseases, and their production, sale and use require strict norms and standards. Drugs sold in hospitals are only sold on the shelves after inspection, approval, acceptance and storage. Therefore, once sold that is considered "consumed", should not support the return.
2. Medicines are essential to human health and should be used in accordance with doctor's orders and instructions. Once a drug is opened the seal or package, there may be safety and health issues. Even if the hospital has safeguarded the packaging and seals of the medicines during the selling process, the hospital needs to bear the risk and responsibility for the health problems caused by improper use of the medicines by the customers in the process of using the medicines.
3. Legitimate pharmaceutical companies need to take responsibility for the manufacturers and other customers, and need to manage the quality control and supply chain of their medicines in a sophisticated way. Because medicines need to go through complex inspection and quality testing procedures before they are sold, they need to be sold to maintain the good quality of the medicines and prohibited from being returned or exchanged arbitrarily, so as to ensure that the quality of the medicines is safe and the reliability of the supply is assured.
4. Although hospitals are non-profit organizations, they need to be able to ensure a reasonable and sound economic operation in selling medicines, including cost control and reasonable expectation of profits. Supporting refunds and exchanges, in addition to negatively affecting the availability and cost of medicines in hospitals, may also provide opportunities for unscrupulous individuals to counterfeit and smuggle medicines, posing risks to both hospitals and patients.
In summary, drugs are very important commodities, and drugs sold in hospitals are subject to strict regulations and management requirements. In view of the special nature and importance of medicines, it is necessary to protect the quality and safety of medicines, therefore, hospitals should adhere to the attitude of not supporting the return of medicines, to strengthen the management and supervision, and to provide the public with more assured and high-quality medical services.