for pharmacy students

1. Presented By:
Ms. S. L. Khedekar

2.  Hindu medicines (Ayurvedic medicines), begin with the ‘Atharva
Veda’ which contains a list of diseases with their symptoms in the
form of incantation.
 Ayurveda, the science of longevity is appended to Atharva veda.
 In Vedic times, the physicians and surgeons lived in Garden
Houses and cultivated the required medicinal plants.
 Sushruta and Charaka are the two great names in Ayurveda.
 When Muslim came and ruled India, they brought their Unani
system of medicine.
 During 18th century the system of medicines were advanced with
time and came into existence the organization of Hospital.

3.  The hospital organization is working with the aim of attaining,
maintaining and promoting the health of nation.
 The health professionals such as clinical practitioner, nurses,
technicians, medical workers, dieticians and pharmacists etc. are together
referred as Health Care Team.
 Allopathic system introduced by British when they ruled India.
 The tendency to specialization has affected the separation of pharmacy
from medicine with little overlapping of jurisdiction and practice.
 Then the function of physician is to diagnose disease and to
recommend the treatment through prescription, while pharmacist has to
dispense the medicine according to the prescription.

4.  During last 5 to 6 decades, complex and potent organic compounds are
introduced as medicines.
Eg. Tablet, Capsules and Injections etc.
 Such complex and potent dosage forms can not be dispensed or prepared in
very small scale maintaining their strength and stability each time.
 They are to be manufactured in pharmaceutical industries with subsequent
quality control.
 As per the discussion held in British Pharmaceutical conferences in 1963 a
pharmacist is regarded as an expert on drugs while a medical practitioner is
concerned with diagnosis and treatment.
 Now-a-days pharmacist is no longer regarded as a dispenser or
compounder.
 Pharmacist has to play an important consultative and management role.

5.  Some important aspects of health care are outline in the report of the
International conferences on primary health care held in Sept. 1978 at Alma
Ata to achieve the goal ‘Health for all by 2000 A D’. They are
1) Education concerning prevailing health problems and the methods of
identifying, preventing and controlling them.
2) Promotion of food supply and proper nutrition.
3) Prevention and control of locally epidemic diseases.
4) Provisions of essential drugs.
5) Appropriate treatment of common disease.
6) Immunization against the major infections and diseases.
7) Availability of health professionals.
8) National health care policy.

6. 1) Academic
Pharmacists
2) Industrial
pharmacists
3) Hospital
Pharmacists
4) Community
Pharmacists
The profession of pharmacy in our country presently consist
of:

7.  Pharmacist have special knowledge regarding the drug, and their
therapeutic actions.
 As he ha the information about the drug he is very close to
prescriber or physician.
 Similarly , the dispensing compounding activity and his ability to
give health related information bring him close to the patients or
public.
 He serves as link between physician and the patients.

8. Pharmacist has to play an important role in the areas such as
1) Prescription
adherence
2) Storage and
distribution of
drugs
3) Drug choice
4) Drug monitoring
5) Information and education
6) Clinical Pharmacokinetics
7) Research and development and many
other health activities.

9. The pharmacist is responsible for ensuring that the right patient is
receives the right medicine in the right dose for the right condition in
the right dosage form and at right frequency and hence, he is considered
as an integral part of the health care system.

10. THANK
YOU