Question number 2: Read the following situation and answer the underlined question.

Wayne Hills Hospital in tiny Wayne, Nebraska, faces a problem common to large, urban hospitals as well as to small, remote ones like itself. That problem is deciding how much of each type of whole blood to keep in stock. Because blood is expensive and has a limited shelf life (up to 5 weeks under 16C refrigeration), Wayne Hills naturally wants to keep its stock as low as possible. Unfortunately, past disasters such as a major tornado and a train wreck demonstrated that lives would be lost when not enough blood was available to handle massive needs. The hospital administrator wants to set an 85% service level based on demand over the past decade. Discuss about the hospitals responsibility with regard to stocking lifesaving medicines with short shelf lives? ( 05 marks)

Length of the answer: Between 100 and 120 words

Marks distribution of the question is as follows:

Originality: 2

Discussion about the hospital responsibility with regard to stocking lifesaving medicines with short self-lives: 3