Nagpur: The second wave of Covid-19 is awesome to make people aware of the importance of health workers who are not like before.
Doctors, nurses, health workers, assistants and sanitation workers in hospitals are respected as Covid soldiers.
But pharmacists, one of the main pillars of health care systems and unsung pandemic heroes, still feels neglected.
At night the world pharmacist, which was celebrated on September 25, TOI spoke to the leaders of associations practicing pharmacists.
“The pharmacist is respected in most countries, especially developed.
In India we do not enjoy the same respect.
Pandemic Covid-19 brings forward an important position of the pharmacist in the patient’s care system,” said Kailas Tandale, Maharashtra President Practicing the Pharmacist Association (MPPA) .
According to him, pharmacists are rarely mentioned as Covid soldiers and their efforts overlooked globally.
“But we continue to work at the forefront every day, providing important health care services throughout the pandemic,” he said.
Dr.
Vinayak Ghayal, President of the Association of Pharma D Maharashtra, said that they were still waiting for their reception “only requests would be recognized as clinical pharmacists at the hospital”.
“Apart from the Pharmaceutical Board directing the state to appoint a pharmaceutical degree holder in the clinical pharmacist position in a government and private hospital, Maharashtra has not followed a direction,” said Dr.
Ghayal.
The problem of pharmaceutical holders using the prefix of Dr.
still mired in controversy.
During the second wave, the pharmacist holding this title has repeatedly asked the state to allow them to provide forefront health services to handle doctors’ shortcomings, but it didn’t work.
Many pharmacists who have a medical store in the city told toi that against general perceptions that they made big money, many experienced large losses during the Covid-19 period.
“This is the biggest misunderstanding that the retail booming pharmacist business during a pandemic.
In fact, we suffer big losses.
FDA restrictions and sales of many controlled drugs make us professionally weakly,” said the retail pharmacist to Toi.