Abstract: In every country, the quality health personnel has evolved in the course of last many years, some times it has taken couple of centuries. The training of physicians or nurses in the U.S. is different than in other countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. The differences are many more than the commonalities. So is the case of the community pharmacist. I have had the opportunity to visit the pharmacies of countries, so far apart from the another, i.e., Mexico to Indonesia and from U.S. and Canada to Soviet Union to China and Japan. In the last few months, I saw the pharmacies in China, most of whom have a division each of Chinese medicine and Modern medicine (some times on a separate floor).
Where do we stand?
Our community pharmacist in India, unlike in the west, is a Diploma holder and not a University degree holder and we have almost 500,000 of them serving all over the country. His pharmacy, in most cases, is not more than 300 sq ft. (30 metres) in area. Patients/their relatives form a bee line from early in morning and he serves them speedily, unlike in the U.S. or Canada where he asks the customer to come after a couple of hours in which he fills the prescription. The pharmacy nearest to my home "Om Pharmacy" is owned and catered by "Madho" (full name Mahadev Prasad Sharma) who begins work at 9:00 A.M. |
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