Abstract: Health care is the prime need of a society / family / person. Role of a physician always remains prime for treatment of a patient, though it is with involvement of medicines, diagnostic tests and sometimes hospitalization, which certainly involves involvement of others professionals i.e. pharmacists, technicians, biomedical instrumentation expert, nurses, wardboy, operation theatre assistant etc. as well as involvement of high cost. In the present context it is observed that the role of medicine expert i.e. Pharmacist is not utilized in health care team properly. In general hospital pharmacy means dispensing of medicines in a hospital. But actually it is not so. Medication therapies and their delivery systems are becoming more and more complex. Now-a-days market is flooded with potent drugs, new drugs, costly drugs, and non-conventional drugs (advanced drug delivery system). Also there is erosion in patient care, much more medication error, more hospitalization, more stay of patients, more costly treatment, irrational drug therapy. etc. These are due to wrong handling of drugs, improper patient counseling, adverse drug reaction, medication error, lack of drug information center, lack of quality assurance of drugs and improper dispensing of medicines in inward & outdoor patients etc. Now due to advancement of Pharmacy curriculum and Pharmaceutical Technology, the capabilities of pharmacists have been improved much more for patient monitoring to ensure rational drug therapy. There is a greater need for patients' medication use to be managed by a qualified pharmacist and state health services agencies to aggressively enforce standards of pharmaceutical care provided by hospital pharmacists. In earlier days the role of hospital pharmacist were limited to storage and dispensing in hospitals. After Hathi Committee and several committee recommendations, some improvements were made in few hospitals of our country. But still patients are deprived from Hospital Pharmacy Services.
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