Safety, Fire & Survival · Medical — Medicine Chest
The ship's medicine chest is required to be:
- AUsed only by passengers
- BOptional on commercial vessels
- CStocked per the flag-state scale for the vessel's category, inventoried, and kept in date✓ Correct
- DFilled with whatever is on hand
Explanation
Vessels must carry a medical chest scaled to the ship type, voyage, and crew size, with contents listed and replenished before expiry. A responsible officer maintains the inventory. The required scale and the Medical Guide let the crew, with radio advice, treat illness and injury at sea.
Authority: Flag-state medical stores regulations; IMO/ILO MLC
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