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Call to amend Pharmacy Act

Staff Reporter

Coimbatore: "The 58-year-old Pharmacy Act should be amended in order to increase the minimum registration qualification of pharmacists from a mere diploma to graduation. They should also be exposed to continuing education programmes to understand and be in sync with new drugs. This will enable them to extend their role beyond the call of duty," said B. Suresh, President of Pharmacy Council of India, here on Saturday.

"The pharmaceutical profession must become more patient-oriented and welfare-oriented. For this pharmacists should be continually exposed to new ways of learning about medicines in order to help people during times of infections and epidemics that are a fallout of heavy rains and other natural calamities. Their duty should go beyond mere dispensing of medicines in pharmacies," he said at a seminar on career opportunities and advances in the pharmaceutical field.

Organised by the Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA), Education Division, and conducted by the College of Pharmacy, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Paramedical Sciences, the seminar aimed at informing the participants about the recent trends in the pharmaceutical field, pharma marketing, communication skills and personality development for a successful professional career.

R. Venkatesalu, Managing Trustee, SNR Sons Charitable Trust, presiding, said the pharmaceutical discipline should develop as an industry in the South. He expressed the hope that the industry would start playing a vital role in the country's economy.

K. Chinnaswamy, Chairman, IPA Education Division and EC Member, Pharmacy Council of India, called for sincerity and devotion in the profession. He said that sincerity should be manifested in service to patients.

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