However, I chose to be bold and to change community pharmacy practice by implementing enhanced services in the way my mentors taught me. … As a young pharmacist, I could have chosen to be bitter or to blame others. When I first came back from training in the UK, I was shocked to realize there was no separation of prescribing and dispensing in Malaysia, though I had been trained in a system that assumed otherwise. Q: How can the community pharmacy be defined beyond the traditional retail view?īeh: CPs have the power to define their role. And third, as healthcare professionals, not drug sellers. Second, as guardians of medicine who ensure products are of quality, safe and effective. First, as medicine experts, because we’re trained in terms of the management of medicines rather than diseases.
I can say we should play three major roles. The fact that there’s more of an emphasis on primary care is already a significant change … How much it would benefit the rakyat also depends on whether CPs are ready to serve in preventive care. Since the change of government last year, there’s been more focus on promotive and preventive care-not just curative, rehabilitative, and palliative-and the whole span of this involves pharmacists. But due to the unique public-private healthcare system in this country, this sort of recognition hasn’t really emerged. This reflects a need for community pharmacy to evolve from a product-based service to a patient-based service. If you look at the Malaysian National Medicines Policy (MNMP) endorsed in 2006, the term ‘retail pharmacist’ was dropped in lieu of ‘community pharmacist’. Q: How can the public standing of community pharmacists (CPs) be elevated?Īmrahi: I think the government needs to give due recognition to the pharmacist’s role in the community. The following responses have been edited for clarity. Panellists Amrahi Buang, president, Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (MPS) Lovy Beh, president, Malaysian Community Pharmacy Guild (MCPG) and Leong Sook Fun, managing director, Bayer Malaysia, shared their perspectives and fielded questions from the audience. I’ve explained what flexo printing is, but what are its pros and cons? These are often essential parameters in your decision-making process.At the recent 2 nd Bayer Pharmacist Congress in July, a forum was held to discuss the topic ofĪdvancing the Role of Pharmacists in Primary Care.
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