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A competent pharmacist can prevent misuse of drugs: Shankar Gupta
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
December 31 , 2014
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The Schedule H1 has been implemented to curb the misuse of essential
lifesaving medicines including some narcotic drugs. Since the pharmacist
being the best person to deal with drugs, he can prevent the drug
misuse, according to Shankar Gupta, former deputy drugs controller
(CDSCO), Kolkata.
He was delivering a lecture on the subject
‘Role of Pharmacists in Controlling Misuse of Drugs” in a seminar
organised by IPA West Bengal division in Kolkata.
“A competent
pharmacist will monitor, justify and dispense the correct drugs to the
patients, reducing drug hazards and concurrent complications. He
dispenses correct doses as well as counsel the patients. Prudent
intervention by pharmacists helps to tackle the problems such as wrong
prescriptions, over use and under use, and other medication errors”, he
said.
Sharing the dais, Dr Guru Prasad Mohanta, professor,
department of pharmacy at Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu, said the
pharmacists of today need more competence in their profession to
effectively tackle rising healthcare costs. He added that the healthcare
system needed a collaborative and focussed approach of all the
stakeholders in healthcare management. In the changing scenario of
healthcare, from curative to preventive, the role of pharmacists is more
challenging to retain their relevance as partners in the system.
Dr Mohanta said empowerment of pharmacists will help further improvement in public health.
Participating
in the seminar, Dr Shantanu K Tripati, professor and head at the
department of clinical & experimental pharmacology, Calcutta school
of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata spoke on the problems of irrational drugs
in the Indian market.
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