Manual medication transport has several challenges:
Delays and longer waiting times, especially when there are long distances within the hospital or staff shortages.
Regulations and guidelines on transport must be strictly adhered to in order to avoid loss of quality and/or damage.
Safety measures to prevent unauthorized access to medications.
Due to time-consuming manual transports, it is necessary to have a large stock of medications on the wards. However, these satellite stocks take up a lot of space, and their management again takes up a lot of time. Critical medications, such as cytostatic drugs or narcotics, are particularly demanding.