A system for filling medication dose packs with oral-solid medication items, comprising: storage tray drawers each having at least one storage tray, with each storage tray storing a specific type of oral-solid medication item, the storage tray drawers being displaceable to a drawn position to expose the storage trays thereof; a table supporting at least one dose pack having a plurality of receptacles arranged in rows, with each receptacle associated with an intake time and date of a patient prescription file; a dispensing mechanism, to transfer the oral-solid medication items from the storage trays in the drawn position to the receptacles of the dose pack; and a dispenser controller for determining the specific types of oral-solid medication items required in the receptacles of the dose pack as a function of a patient prescription file, and for actuating the dispensing mechanism to control the displacements thereof, as well as the suction thereof to fill the dose packs as a function of the patient prescription file, characterised in that the dispensing mechanism has - a plurality of fingers for grasping by suction an oral-solid medication item to fill simultaneously a plurality of receptacles of a row of the dose pack, with the suction of each one of the fingers being actuated independently to dispense oral-solid medication items in selected ones of the receptacles of the rows, and - degrees of freedom to displace the plurality of the fingers from any one of the storage trays to the dose pack. storage tray drawers each having at least one storage tray, with each storage tray storing a specific type of oral-solid medication item, the storage tray drawers being displaceable to a drawn position to expose the storage trays thereof; a table supporting at least one dose pack having a plurality of receptacles arranged in rows, with each receptacle associated with an intake time and date of a patient prescription file; a dispensing mechanism, to transfer the oral-solid medication items from the storage trays in the drawn position to the receptacles of the dose pack; and a dispenser controller for determining the specific types of oral-solid medication items required in the receptacles of the dose pack as a function of a patient prescription file, and for actuating the dispensing mechanism to control the displacements thereof, as well as the suction thereof to fill the dose packs as a function of the patient prescription file, characterised in that the dispensing mechanism has - a plurality of fingers for grasping by suction an oral-solid medication item to fill simultaneously a plurality of receptacles of a row of the dose pack, with the suction of each one of the fingers being actuated independently to dispense oral-solid medication items in selected ones of the receptacles of the rows, and - degrees of freedom to displace the plurality of the fingers from any one of the storage trays to the dose pack. - a plurality of fingers for grasping by suction an oral-solid medication item to fill simultaneously a plurality of receptacles of a row of the dose pack, with the suction of each one of the fingers being actuated independently to dispense oral-solid medication items in selected ones of the receptacles of the rows, and - degrees of freedom to displace the plurality of the fingers from any one of the storage trays to the dose pack.