Dispensing medicine is not just a mechanical transfer of materials from one person to the other.
It is the transfer of information with the material to ensure that the consumer adopts good technique in handling and storage and uses the medicine in the most appropriate way so that he is least harmed due to the side effects and at the same time derives optimized medication benefit that results in considerably lowered morbidity.
Corollary:
It should Be a habit in all patients to insist on correct and authentic information on each medicine he procures from a chemist shop or a hospital, as it is he who is using the medicine.
Chemist or hospital pharmacist cannot shirk his responsibility by telling 'Ask your doctor:.
If theChemist doesn't have an answer he should borrow time, collect the information and communicate.
At no cost and at no time the information can be refused by the dispensing professional as:
IT IS THE BASIC RIGHT OF THE PATIENT TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT HE IS CONSUMING.
The NPW 2016 is round the corner .
Educate and create awareness in the public on the need to have full information of their medicines.
Let them demand the service from the chemist and Hosp pharmacists.
