Posted by: Chicago-Bull October 6, 2007
Pharmacy Practice in Nepal
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Coffee333, What is the basis of your saying? I disagree!!!! ...especially for some of the issues you raised herein like: 

"the only thing pharmacists do in nepal is to sell drugs... exactly the same model as liquor shop.. you pay.. and buy stuffs.. or exactly the cashier of a gas station.. lol..."        Nepalese Pharmacist are more actively involved as in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (approz. 40 pharmaceutical comapanies), Government officials, NGOs/INGOs, Community Pharmacy, and rarely in Clinical/Hospital and Retail Pharmacy. They are not selling drugs like as liquor shop or gas station as coffeee said. A very few are atively selling drugs in Retail Pharmacy. Whereever they work, they have tried to implement the ethics of Retail Pharmacy and made a revolution. Unfortunately it is rarely done. Must say....its in growing phase in Nepal.  

"another dilemma is that few years back they change the law that every pharmacy must have one assigned pharmacist to register their pharmacy to the govt.  and see what happened. one pharmacist is linked to more than 50  stores in ktm.. this pharmacist gets some money for signing some paperwork which is required to open new pharmacy... and finally, this pharmacist will forget that for how many pharmacies he has signed the paper for being their assigned pharmacist... lol... "          Any registered Pharmacist (Nepal Pharmacy Council -NPC Registration) in Nepal can't sign more than one Pharmacy. NPC & DDA (Dept of Drug Administration) has all records. So Cofeee's guff seems baseless!

However I agree your concern about - antibiotics misuse in Nepal. Its bitter truth, though. The population of Pharmacists (Graduate and Certificate Level) are very few in comparision to other profession. Hence, it is worthless to assume complete revolution in this sector. Shortage of manpower is one of the problem. Especially these years, brain-drain is one of the most deadly factors for the reason. There are some organizations like GPAN (Graduate Pharmacist Association Nepal), NPA (Nepal Pharmaceutical Association), PHON (Pharmaceutical Horizon of Nepal), Forum for Pharmacy, Kathmandu Univeristy (FoP), etc. who have been actively involved in the betterment of whole Phamacy Profession in Nepal! 

 

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