Pharmaceutical Review (www.pharmareview.wordpress.com); Pakistan Pharmacist Association (PPA) Baluchistan is on strike and arranged a protest camp at Press Club, Quetta Baluchistan regarding provincial service structure . They are demanding the internationally recognized and WHO recommended service structure to provide the quality pharmaceutical care in province. They also have demanded the Provincial Health Allowance as per rule.
The executives of Pakistan Pharmacist Federation (Professional body registered under Society Act) have supported this strike. President: Dr.Taha Nazir B.Pharm., M.Phil., Ph.D., C.: 0321 222 0885; E. tahanazir@yahoo.com; Senior Vice President: Dr. Abdul Haleem Khan; B.Pharm., M.Pharm., Ph.D C.: +92 321 411 2410; Vice President (Hospitals): M. Ikram Khan B.Pharm. M.Phil., (NIH), Islamabad; Vice President (Marketing): Syed Jamshed Ahmed B. Pharm., MBA., M. Phil., Ph.D., C.: 03008257351; Tel: (021) 4315195-7 Ext. 112; Vice President (Industries): Hafiz Muhammad Umer Nisar Pharm D., M.B.A., C.: +92 300 478 0439; Vice President (Research) Dr. Tahir Aziz Mughal C.: +92 321 488 7801; General Secretary: Muhamamd Bin Ibrahim, B.Pharm., M.Phil. (Pharmaceutics), +92 300 780 9397; Joint Secretary Prof. Iradat Hussain B.Pharmacy, M.Phil., C.: 03214706508; President Sindh Br. Arif Arain (Sindh) +92 300 301 9512; President Punjab: Br. Abdul Aleem (Punjab) +92 301 718 3126; 0322 608 8647; President Baluchistan: Br. Ghulam Razzaq (Baluchistan) +92 333 783 6471; President KPK: Br. Mudassar Khan (KPK) +92 314 907 6915 has condemn the Baluchistan Govt. for not contacting and talking with pharmacy professionals. The chief secretary of Baluchistan Mr. Baber Fateh Muhammad Yaqood is actual person who has retained the case. Mr. Baber Yaqood told that they don’t have sufficient funds to implement the pharmacy structure. But, PPF and PPA Baluchistan have chalked out the financial scheme too to proved best health facilities for province. Hence; executives of PPF has demand to Dr. Abdul Malik Chief Minister of Baluchistan to enforce the service structure. This service structure is a blessing for general community, because it will cover the all aspects of all clinical and pharmaceutical care. The pharmacy professional will then be able to offer the basic pharmaceutical health care services of prescription review, patient counseling, therapeutical monitoring, pharmaceutical care, drug information, toxicology and poisoning control.
A quality community pharmacy practice will then help to pharmacy professionals to deliver their skills related to the drug dispensing, drug monitoring, patient biosafety, Pharmacovigilance, pharmaceutical care and therapeutical evaluation. This service structure will provide opportunity to staff pharmacists to minimize the clinical errors, therapeutic problems and remedial inaccuracies leading to save the precious lives of innocent patients enrolled in hospitals of Baluchistan. The standard pharmaceutical services may then be offered with all their features to improve the health care system in Baluchistan. That will help to prevent the unethical and commercially biased health care practice and encourage the rational drug usage. The pharmacists will then be considered as a focal person and important team member of health care system.