Editorial
Perinthalmanna, being hub of
hospitals requires tremendous medical attention from medical professionals.
Could anyone have imagined 4 mediocre hospitals (Ramdas, Alsalama, Watz
and Ascent hospital) 3 Super speciality hospitals(Kims Alshifa, Moulana,
EMS), Medical college (MES) and one Govt hospital,
located in a small town like Perinthalmanna ? Almost all the
hospitals are overcrowded and drug use is at its peak wherever you turn,
Imagine the gravity of the situation! Medication errors and irrational use of
drugs are increasing month after month at logarithmic rate.
Pharmaceutical companies works on 3C
(C-C-C) strategies, where they either try to convince the doctor about their product, if they fail, they try to confuse the doctor, if not successful,
they try to corrupt the doctors which
further increases the magnitude of the situation. The only solution to
overcome all these is judicious use of drugs and awareness about the drug
use at a grass root level. In order to accomplish this, 5th
PharmD students(Augustine, Athira, Aravid and Aswathy and Belsy Boban) of
Alshifa has come up with a novel concept of “Prescription Adalat”, wherein
Pharmacists move towards the patient rather than patient moving towards the
Pharmacist. The basic concept is to implement a direct face to face interaction
between Clinical Pharmacist and the patient. The first “Prescription
Adalat" was conducted at Perinthalmanna on May 23rd, 2015.
Response was tremendous and more than 50 patients from various walks of life
turned up along with their prescriptions for the camp and got all their doubts
clarified with our Pharm D students on a one to one meet. Special Thanks to Mr
karthikeyan, Asst. Professor, for his excellent ideas and outstanding
support. The ‘Prescription Adalat' camp was a huge success in terms of
settlement of prescription assessment, review of patient medication history,
assessment of ADRs, assessing the prevalence of disease etc. Any Clinical
Pharmacist in India can experiment this in their own localities to
educate and empower the people of rural community. Student experience is
covered in this issue and readers can learn more about ‘Prescription Adalat’
through the writeup.
Kerala is known for its labour
immigration as flocks of laborers from other states like Tamilnadu, Orissa and
Bengal come to Kerala to make a living. The concern here is the hiring
companies/labour contractors does not take care of the health or living
condition/working environment of the laborers. This is one of another area
where a Clinical Pharmacist can get involved and make a difference.
Our Pharm D students have already looked into these issues and have shared
their thoughts and experience through a write up.
The Health Ministry is bringing in
gazette notification shortly wherein doctors will be demanded to write the
names of medicines and related information in capital letters. Medical Council
of India has circulated a standard format of prescription for all the doctors
to all Medical Council across the State. Doctors across the country have
responded positively to this new move. All this was possible due to the
relentless effort of the Pharmacist, Mr.Chilkuri Paramatha from Telengana, Andhrapradesh,
who had made hue and cry to implement the same. As a Pharmacy professional, I
applaud and salute his immense effort towards bringing this great change. The
same has been covered in this issue penned by Ms Chinnu P.B and Mary Raju
Mathew, 5th year Pharm D.
Since time immemorial, there is a
belief among the Diabetic patients that they should abstain from consuming
direct sugar. Also most medical practitioners advice their patients to avoid
sugar and carbohydrate in their diet in order to maintain normal glucose
levels. Dr. Prasad, a Medical Practitioner from Wayanad, kerala, is having a
different approach in his treatment practice. He urges the Diabetic patients to
do a rethinking on this issue. Dr. Prasad is having a rich experience and is
doing exclusive research on diabetic patients for the last 15 years and has
shared his research experience with us this time, Titled- Role of sugar in
Diabetic treatment.
Dr Mohanta, Professor, Annamalai
University has turned up this time with an article titled; ‘when less is
better- using eye drops’, which gives readers a new insight about the usage of
eye drops.
Like always, we have included
department activities, student achievements and regular columns from our staff and students in this new issue.
Glad to inform our readers that we
are now relocated to a new department block recently which has 5 executive
classrooms with one computer & reading room, one R & D
wing, department library, two Staff rooms, and one HOD room with wifi internet
access. Well trained staff and Doctors make sure that students who chose
Alshifa to pursue their career as clinical Pharmacist never goes out of empty
handed.
Thanks to Mr P. Unneen., Managing
trustee, GeneralManager Mr.Suhail Hamsa, Principal Dr.Suriaprakash T.N.K and
other Trust members for giving us a wonderful new learning space!
Dr.Dilip.C
Editor in Chief.
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