Legal Responsibility of Pharmaker for Medication Error in Hospital

Abstract

The incidence of medication errors in Indonesia has not been recorded accurately and systematically. Medication errors are very bad for patients. Cases of medication errors can be resolved through criminal or civil law. The purpose of this study is to describe what can cause medication errors in pharmacist services in hospitals and the legal responsibility of pharmacists for medication errors that occur in hospitals. The results showed that medication errors can occur in every process of medication, both in the process of prescribing, reading the prescription (transcribing), preparing to dispensing the drug, as well as in the process of using
the drug (administration). Factors that cause medication errors can be in the form of poor communication, both in writing (in prescriptions) and orally (between patients, doctors and pharmacists), unsupportive drug distribution systems (computerized systems, drug storage systems, etc.), human resources human (lack of knowledge, excessive work), lack of education to patients, and the role of patients and their families is lacking. Based on Article 46 of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 44 of 2009 concerning Hospitals, hospitals are responsible for all losses that befell patients as a result of medication errors in pharmacists at the hospital. This is because above the pharmacist there is still a bigger container, namely the hospital as the person responsible for medical errors that occur in the hospital.