TPS demands streamlining of pharmacy council in Telangana to strictly impose Pharmacy Act

Hyderabad, March 16, 2022:

The Telangana Pharmacy Society (TPS) has demanded that it is high time to streamline the Telangana State Pharmacy Council (TSPC) to strictly impose the Pharmacy Act and protect the interests of pharmacists in the state.

Speaking at a meeting addressing pharmacy professionals from different sectors recently at Nizam College in Hyderabad, TSPC member and president of TPS Akula Sanjay Reddy said that the time has come for the complete reorganization of Telangana Pharmacy Council as it is main source of power to resolve various problems faced by the pharmacy professionals in the state.

 “It is high time to reorganize and streamline the Telangana Pharmacy Council. We are also urging the government to establish a drug information centre ad appoint pharmacy inspectors instead of entrusting duties of pharmacy inspectors to drug inspectors which is against the pharmacy regulations act and unapproved by the government,” observed Reddy.

Adding further, the TPS president also demanded the state government to immediately appoint more drug inspectors, as the present DCA is facing tough time with little staff to meet the requirements of inspections of pharma industries and at the same time supervising the 30,000 pharmacies located in the state.

At present, Telangana state is having only 70-75 drug inspectors as against the actual requirement over 380 drug inspectors. Akula Sanjay Reddy demanded that to safe guard the public health it is high time the government take up more appointment of drug inspectors in the state. He also demanded that there should be a strict implementation of Section 42 of 1948 of pharmacy act to safe guard the public health by providing proper healthcare to public by the qualified pharmacy professionals.

“If the Pharmacy Act is strictly implemented, it will create employment to more than 50,000 pharmacists in the state. Instead of giving duties to Asha workers who are unqualified to record the health profiles of people in rural areas, the government should use the services of pharmacists, who will record the health profiles of public,” opined Reddy.

He also suggested that each and every pharmacist in medical shops can maintain health profile of local residents since they interact closely with the patients and also the medical shops will be opined for at least 18 hours a day.

Reddy observed, there are lakh of non pharmacists who are working in medical shops. If the government strictly implements the pharmacy act then the people will be free from risk of getting distributed wrong medicines and it will also increase more demand for pharmacy professions in the market and at the same time the demand for better salaries will also be raised.

He said the Telangana government is doing a very good job to improve the health infrastructure in the state and for a good and safe and health Telangana, Sanjay Reddy urged the government to also support the pharmacy professionals by providing them loans up to Rs. 5 lakhs for establishing a medical shop and Rs. 1 crore to a group of 5 pharmacy professionals to establish a pharma company.

He also demanded that each and every private hospital and government hospital should establish clinical pharmacy department and appoint pharma D professionals to advice on dosage and record any adverse medical reactions among the patients. In addition to this, he said each and every pharmacist must be provided a minimum salary of Rs. 30,000, along with other benefits like provident fund, ESI etc. Pharmabiz