Donating......medicine!

Been meaning to write about this lately.. then I found this post on Roora's blog ... so I commented ... then commented again here... then she asked me to post this on my blog too so here it is....

The idea is quite simple actually... it's all about collecting medicine people have stored at home and they don't use .. to give it to people who need it and can't afford it...

Step 1:- You need a group of volunteers to tell their friends/co-workers/relatives/ etc etc to give them all the medicine they don't need..(sometimes people buy medicine for a specific purpose and they don't use it all .. so the rest goes to waste... it happens all the time)

Step 2:- You sort of need to have a "base" (that can be an NGO for eg. or if you're a group of individuals then it could be someone's house or whatever where the volunteers can all put the medicine they collect

Step 3:- A group of pharmacists sort out the medicine to see if things are expired/ can't be given away for any reason (some ointment/gel should be thrown away after opening by a certain period) etc..)

Step 4:- A group of doctors give out the medicine to their patients according to their needs.. these doctors usually work in public hospitals or have access to the poor who can't afford medicine....

If organised, it works .. believe me ... but there "have" to be doctors and pharmacists working on the project... I've been working on it and collecting medicine for a couple of months and the collecting part is going very well ... at one point you may sort of "run out" of people to take medicine from (coz they've given it to you already and nothing has really accumulated yet)... but then sub7an Allah .. you find them telling people they know and giving you the medicine .. so the network grows el7amdulilah....

Hope whoever can apply this tries it out...
Thank you Roora for making me bring it up ... Jazake Allah khayran :-)