Running a drug information system on a scanty budget

The Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cape Town has established an inexpensive but effective drug information system. This ia a manual system, sufficiently flexible to be developed as a sophisticated tool capable of serving the needs of academic medicine, medical administrators and drug regulatory authorities, while in its most simple form it may be used as a reliable patient-orientated service for hospitals and general practitioners, including those in isolated and underdeveloped area. The system could be transferred to a computer with relative ease.