Those technicians, burning the midnight oil without overtime pay, are keeping a flame burning in a crib five miles away. The white powder is captopril, an ACE inhibitor, a chemical crutch for a dying heart. Its not meant for children. So captopril only comes in tablets. Babies can't eat tablets, they stick in the bottle teat.
Tablets are hard to crush on the kitchen table, impossible to dissolve.
So the overworked, underpaid hospital pharmacists did some lateral thinking. So we order captopril powder. Lots of it. Give those parents more boxes than they can carry. Get weighing guys, get folding, get sticking.