Pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmareview.wordpress.com);
Dear Taha & Ayub
This is with reference to you letter, just for your information that with the exclusive efforts of Pakistan Pharmacists Association under the chairmanship of S Khalid Saeed Bukhari we have achieved a lot especially in the public sector, issuance of the such notifications you have given the reference is the prove of such efforts.
In my opinion any person having no experience of working in the public sector can not oversee the functioning of the public sector, I am afraid that your information is not correct that in Punjab hospital hospital services are not being done, These are being done more or less in every hospital including we have not seen yet the establishment of pharmaceutical services, pharmacovigilance, ADR reporting, drug information and poison control centers.and data is being collected at Secretariat level effectively
Being a government side functionary at the senior position in drug control organization, I wish that our colleagues should not spread any false/wrong / misleading and unauthenticated information like in you letter in the last line of first para.
For your information we have achieved another target of having pharmacists in the hospital with the ratio of one for fifty beds and Punjab health department is working actively on it, notification has already been issued and now data / requirement is being collected form all hospital in order to have total number requirement in the hospitals.
Thanks for you interest
AYAZ ALI KHAN
Chief Drug Controller
Health Department
Government of the Punjab, Lahore.
7-B, LDA flates, Huma Block, Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore.
Cell: 0300-8403646
Ph. Off. 042-37802422
Email: ayazalikhan@hotmail.com;
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