Pengabdian Masyarakat Edukasi Pasien Rawat Jalan RS Mitra Medika Medan “Cerdas Memilih Dan Menggunakan Suplemen Kesehatan Aman Tahun 2025

Abstract

The consumption of medicines, health supplements, and traditional medicines increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. People with health complaints prefer self-medication to outpatient treatment. The risk of self-medication needs to be balanced with the knowledge and ability of the community to choose safe drug products, health supplements, and traditional medicines. BPOM increases public awareness related to drug and food safety through effective Communication, Information, and Education (KIE) programs Health Supplements are products that are intended to complement nutritional needs, maintain, improve and/or improve health functions, have nutritional value and/or physiological effects, contain one or more ingredients in the form of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and/or other non-plant ingredients that can be combined with plants. This Community Outreach was carried out to help participants to get to know health supplements that are safe to use. In this community service, education was carried out in the form of presentations related to Smart materials on choosing to use health supplements, especially drugs, and continued with a question and answer session. The question and answer session went well and there were many enthusiastic participants to ask questions after listening to the material that had been described by the speaker