SYSTEM FOR DISPENSING DRUGS

摘要

A prescription dosage unit dispensing system (2) including a housing (4) having a plurality of cells, each cell adapted to contain a base-port subunit including a dosage unit dispensing device, a disposable drug-containing tower unit (18) containing, in sealed condition, a single type of solid dosage unit. The solid dosage unit is operatively connected to the base-port subunit and a device for securing a vial in place so that it can receive the solid dosage units from the drug containing tower unit (18) as instructed manually or via automated microprocessor/computer (12) control.