Dibba Hospital, part of Emirates Health Services, has implemented a best practice with its "Medication Waste-Minimizing Initiative," a programme designed to address the significant financial and environmental costs of pharmaceutical waste. The initiative employs a two-pronged strategy: redistributing surplus medications to other health facilities with higher demand and donating safe, unused patient medications to licensed charitable organisations. The entire process is managed and tracked using

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5.5.2 Manage inventories
12.3 Implement pollution prevention program
12.4 Implement resource preservation program
13.1 Develop and manage supplier/customer partnerships

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