Our Correspondent
Kohima | August 9
The Pharmacy Practice Regulation 2015 was laid in the just concluded 4th session of the 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) here by Nagaland’s Health & Family Welfare Minister S. Pangyu Phom.
The objective for making pharmacy practice regulation, stated, that the mission of pharmacy profession is to render service to humanity with full respect for the dignity of profession and man. Besides addressing the needs of society and of individual patients.
“The public places great trust in the knowledge, skills and professional judgements of pharmacist,” it stated adding this trust requires the pharmacists to ensure and maintain throughout their career high standards of personal and professional conduct, upto date knowledge and professional competences relevant to their domain of practice.
It stated that the registered pharmacists should merit the confidence of patients, entrusted to their care, rendering to each a full measure of service and devotion.
For which the registered pharmacist should try continuously to improve his knowledge and skills and should make available to their patients and colleagues the benefits of the professional attainments.
“The registered pharmacist should practice methods of practice founded on scientific basis and should not associate professionally with anyone who violates this principle. The honoured ideals of the pharmacy profession imply that the responsibilities of the registered pharmacist extend not only to individuals but also to society,” the regulation objective stated.
This calls for framing of the regulations for practice of pharmacist laying down responsibilities of pharmacist towards patient, another registered pharmacist and the public in general, it stated adding the primary reasons to regulate pharmacist profession are; to improve quality of health care, to ensure that pharmacists maintain high standard in their duty, to reduce cost of health care and to inhibit criminal abuse of medicines.
It is also a call for laying down the activities which may be construed as misconduct and provision for taking disciplinary action, the objective of the regulation stated.
