Pharmacy Week at Mysore/SWR by IRPA & IHPA

Fro From left GOVERRDHAN.Y, General Secretary/IHPA, BABU.P.NARESH,Treasurer/IHPA, P.K.RAJEEV,GS/IRPA R.ANDAL, President/IRPA, A.M.R.PRASAD, President/IHPA and R.VENKATESH , Treasurer/IRPA

 The Indian Railway Pharmacist Association (SWR) and  Indian Hospital Pharmacist Association, Mysore Branch  comprising of its members  celebrated the week recently at New Sharadha Resorts with the theme , “ PHARMACIST – A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL “. All the dignitaries spoke on the occasion with a motto to make aware the patients regarding the services which can be obtained from the qualified Pharmacist for their better health regarding medicines only from the Pharmacist. The General Secretary/IHPA Sri. GOVERRDHAN.Y on the occasion said that there should be one Pharmacist in every ward for care of inpatients to give the right  medicines as it is only the Pharmacist who is qualified in administering medicines by which many deaths occurring due to reactions of drugs administered by unqualified staff in wards can be avoided and at-most care can be provided to the Indian citizens also with par to other countries. He also said that the B-Pharmacy Practice course will be approved at the earliest and is expected to start from the next academic year. The Pharmacist Associations on this occasion objected to the introduction of B.Sc Rural Health Doctors course which got approved recently as this move is like providing lesser qualified services to the society in-turn also degrading the MBBS and AYUSH Medical practitioners. They expressed an opinion of giving training to already available Health care professionals i.e. Pharmacists in diagnosis and the AYUSH medical practitioners  in the use of certain allopathic medicines as are already qualified and registered by which the motto of Rural service practitioners are fulfilled immediately without any such lower qualified persons like B.Sc in Rural Health in present trends of MD on MBBS.