Ruling on dispensing medicines from one hospital pharmacy to another

Q: What is the ruling on a person who takes medicines from the pharmacy he oversees and sends them to another patient in a different hospital or at home, on the pretext that he is a Muslim and that they are not for sale?

A: This has a system and instructions. If the pharmacy is exclusively for the hospital, medicines should not be dispensed from it to anyone other than the patients attending that hospital, because this is a hospital with its own patients. It is obligatory that the medicines from the aforementioned pharmacy be dispensed to them and not transferred to another hospital. Likewise, if each hospital has its own pharmacy, nothing should be transferred from one to the other, because these are instructions from the state. However, if the pharmacy has instructions from the Ministry of Health permitting it to dispense medicines to places other than the hospital for which it is intended, there is no harm. Otherwise, it is obligatory to adhere to the instructions and not exceed them.