PROMULGATION OF AN INTELLIGIBLE PHARMACY PRACTICE ACT IS HIGHLY REQUIRED IN BANGLADESH (Prof. Sk. Feroz Uddin Ahmed) An intelligible Pharmacy Practice Act contains a comprehensive set of the general laws, required for the standard practices of Pharmacy (also called as statutes or statutory laws of Pharmacy). It also states the definitions for the specific acts or functions of the pharmacy practices. Those laws are made in the parliament by the elected members of the parliament, for the purposes of regulation and maintenance of the standards of the relevant acts (as for example, the individualized & specific acts of the pharmacy practices like: functions of the pharmacists and subordinate staffs, job descriptions & scopes, job qualifications, registration requirements, licensing processes, responsibilities, positive & negative permits, disqualifications etc) for which the laws are required to make and promulgate. That means an enacted (ie. promulgated) Pharmacy Practoce Act contains the statutory Pharmacy laws to maintain and regulate all of the specific pharmacy services with its required quality and standards. In absence of the statutory laws and the legal provisions and regulations; no job positions or job specifications are created, made, and or maintained in any field or workplace or discipline or system of delivering pharmacy services in the country. Bangladesh has not yet enacted any real purpose & benefit serving or supporting comprehensive Act for the Good Pharmacy Practices. Thus in the country, good pharmacy services are not available. And pharmacy practices are not constructed in the organized and useful designs or forms for goof pharmaceutical care in the healthcare system. A set of the specified legislative definitions, general & specific laws and legal indications are necessary for making necessary regulations to control and administer the pharmacy practice oriented services and specifying necessary job characteristics, standards, descriptions etc; that are not existing (or in other word, standing) in Bangladesh. The Board of Pharmacy does not have the legal capacities, and are not lawfully empowered in making rules and regulations for indicating or instructing the healthcare system components that are required to create and maintain standard job conditions for the standard pharmacy practices; due to the nonexistent (not enacted) general laws of the pharmacy practices. It became highly necessary now to set job descriptions & specifications for the graduate pharmacists and other pharmacy staffs to work for the pharmacy services in the hospitals & health institutions, clinics and other community healthcare centers. Pharmacy service opportunities and positions for the graduate pharmacists in any of the spheres and areas of the healthcare system are not available or existing in Bangladesh due to the fact of absence of necessary statutory obligations. For that reason, not a single job creation was made for the graduate pharmacists in the public hospitals and other health institutions of the country; despite of the requests, appeals & demands of the Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Society (BPS) and Pharmacy Graduates Association (PGA). BPS and PGA are sincerely approaching for the sponsoring and promotion of the issues of upgrading hospital and community pharmacy practices to the politicians, health minister(s) and other important stakeholders since the days of 1968. Pharmacists and the people of Bangladesh have to approach consistently in requesting the members of the legislature (parliament) for the initiation and making of highly necessary & important statutory pharmacy laws for the provisions of delivering the secured services and the unique values of good pharmacy practices in the healthcare system; as similar as to that of the other developed and less developed countries of the world. Bangladesh has been producing highly qualified and talented graduate pharmacists since 1964 (and has already produced them in enough numbers) whom may work in the institutional, hospital and community pharmacies to serve good pharmacy services to the people and can also coordinate with other health providers of the healthcare system of the country. Once the pharmacy practices come under the said type of the statutory laws and other necessary legal provisions of the pharmacy practices in the country (that are highly needed for the good pharmacy practices); the Graduate Pharmacists will be able to participate and in assisting with the other healthcare providers (doctors etc) in the healthcare system through regular and collaborative ways in providing and ensuring the appropriate and highly useful good pharmacy services in the healthcare system in securing good health to the people.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:04:14 +0000
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