You are a Medical Assistant in a busy medical office responsible for managing supplies and equipment. Your duties include performing routine inventory checks, identifying expired or damaged supplies, and ensuring that accurate information is provided to your supervisor for reordering. Failing to maintain these responsibilities could lead to serious consequences for both patients and staff.As part of your job, you are required to regularly assess the inventory of medical supplies.1. Explain why performing supplies inventory is so important and how often should it be performed.2. Explain how this task affects the delivery of the patient's care ad safety providing at least one examplefrom the administrative setting and one from the clinical setting.3. What safety risks do the expiration date and damaged or malfunctioning equipment present to the patient and office staff in the administrative and clinical areas? Give two examples for both the administrative areas and clinical/laboratory areas of a medical office.4. How should expired and damaged supplies be handled during an inventory? Does the handling of expired and damaged supplies have an immediate effect on the overall office?