Dear all pharmacists and other friends
I am immensely pleased to have a very healthy discussion regarding developments in pharmacy curriculum, and strongly believe that we can make a change with our sincere efforts and participation. First of all, I want to clarify the point raised by Ghulam Razaque sb “Walkout from the meeting” because of the exciting confusion. In the curriculum meeting, Prof. Dr. Saeed Ul Hassan being Principal was invited from University of the Punjab, he wrote to HEC to invite Professor Dr. Bashir Ahmad and myself also. He got the verbal invitation for both of us. Therefore, on the meeting day, we accompanied our principal. At the start of the meeting members of the council told the chairman about our presence without invitation. The chairman said that we can attend the meeting but can not contribute. So there was no point to waste three days there and we came back. This is truth.
The second thing that I would like to explain that some of our pharmacists are misinterpreting this issue. They are playing a cunning and Hippocratic role to the community and having propagating wrong informations. In my opinion; we can refine our system with critic and good politics. If there is vested interest of members of the council they make SROs but when it is matter of the community they ignore to make any SRO. For example, no SRO came to stop category B and C, but SRO came to snatch Rs 1000/enrolled student.
We, the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of the Punjab are not involved in any game but are only ready to resist any illegal/unlawful move of the council or anybody else that is not in the favor of the pharmacists.
Regarding the curriculum our conscious is clear that it should be country need-based. We will support the one year residency, if paid reasonably like many countries abroad, and there is only Registered Pharmacist, not B and C. Requesting to all those who are at key positions to contribute and influence to up-lift the status of pharmacists.
Thanks and regards
Dr. Khalid Hussain Assistant Professor; School of Pharmacy, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.