Pharmaceutical Review (Staff Reporter); Professional Group of Pakistan Pharmacist Association (PPA) is misusing official funds to organize an illegal and unprincipled 18th International Pharmacy Conference & Exhibition 30thOctober-2nd November, 2013. This group has controlled the pharmacy profession and driving the PPA since last 25 years. They don’t care of officially permitted tenures and electoral procedures. The last engineered election was held in 2009. Mr. Muazzam Ali Khan Heath Dept., Govt. of Punjab, Lahore (03004918277) was appointed as chief election commission. He has worked as dummy and puppet election incharge to conduct biased and engineered election. Hence; we condemn his unethical, illegal and non-professional role.
Thus; as per anticipation; this professional group of PPA has already badly failed to work and contribute in pharmacy profession in Pakistan. They have has maintained their hold by certain unethical and non-professional course of actions since last 25 years. The failure of “Professional Group” is evidenced by not implementing the Punjab drug rule 2007; not assuring the issuance of the “drugs sale license” to pharmacist only; not designing; not establishing the independent “pharmacy directorate” to assure the independent working; not properly enforcing the “salary structure” to assure the minimum starting wage of new graduates equivalent to 17th grade gazetted officer; not assuring the “new recruitments and appointments” of pharmacists in trauma centre, TB centers, operation theatres, TPN, drug information centers and Aseptic dispensing to assure the rational utilization of life saving drugs, armed forces, naval hospitals, combine military hospitals (CMH’s) in uniform, Railways, WAPDA, PTV, PIA etc on permanent and regular basis with all benefits; not assuring the pharmacist as an “important team member” of therapeutical committees, drug purchase committees and clinical pharmaceutical services departments to play as life saving professional.