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Pharmacists at a seminar have demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to make immediate amendments to the Pharmacy Act 1967 and asked to impose ban on Pharmacy of category B and C. The seminar was organized by Pharmacist Community and United Pharmacist Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in connection with the World Pharmacy Day here at Peshawar Pres Club on Sunday.
Senior pharmacist and former president Pakistan Pharmacist Association (PPA) KP chapter Israf Gul said that the pharmacists' services could not be ignored because a doctor prescribes to patients while pharmacist points out the effect and side effects of medicines. Similarly, he said that a pharmacist has thorough awareness of right use and misuse of medicine.
Nazir Ahmad expressed deep concerns and said that medical stores in small as well as big cities of Pakistan are being operated by matric pass operators, who even did not know that in which temperature medicine to be kept.
He demanded of the government to allow the category-A pharmacist for operating medical stores in tehsil municipal administration while category-B pharmacist should be confined to village level.
Javed, President PPA KP, said that they met KP health minister last year to get the professional allowances for pharmacists but despite the lapse of one year the summary was not moved yet.
Dr Niaz Ali said that it was need of the hour to bring reforms in the curriculum and syllabus of pharmacy, adding that with the reforms more than 50 percent issues of the pharmacists automatically be resolved. He demanded of the Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman to make sure a pharmacist for 50 beds in hospitals.
He also asked the KP government to bring amendments in the 1982 KP drug rules and impose restriction on issuance distribution and wholesale licenses to the category C pharmacist. Similarly, he demanded of the government to appoint a drug inspector at tehsil level for halting the substandard, unregistered and expired medicines.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2016

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