Pursuant to the powers vested in the Dangerous Drugs Board under Section 36(a) of R.A. 6425, as amended, Section 5 of Board Regulation No. 2, series of 1973 on the subject of Records and Reports Required of Pharmacists on the Sales, Purchases, Acquisitions, and Deliveries of Dangerous Drugs, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SECTION 5.       In view of the peculiar nature of the procedures observed in the dispensing of dangerous drugs to in-patients in hospitals and similar institution's, the required prescription for dangerous drugs may be issued immediately after each vial of such is consumed, PROVIDED, THAT IN THE CASE OF SURITAL AND SODIUM PENTOTHAL, THE PRESCRIPTION MAY BE ISSUED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THREE (3) VIALS THEREOF ARE CONSUMED AND PROVIDED, FURTHER, that every record made of the disposition of each vial shall be invariably accompanied by properly filled up record forms conforming to DDB Form No. 13-73.

SECTION 6.       This Regulation shall take effect immediately.

Adopted: 5 July 1973

(SGD.) CLEMENTE S. GATMAITAN, M.D., M.P.H.
Chairman