Pharmacy students to Educate patients

Updated on: Thursday, November 27, 2014

Patients always have to be educated with patience by the doctors. Doctors take the help of Para medical staff to do this. Nurses, pharmacists and other medical assistants play vital rule in assisting the patients. Whether patients are educated or not, that is not the case, yet they need proper guidance. No doubt, there is communication gap among the medical team which certainly put the patients in confusion. To avoid this undesired confusion, Indian Pharmaceutical Association deploys 500 pharmacy students out side 1000 pharmacies in the city to explain about the medicine to the patients.

Doctors could not explain properly about the usage, nature, and dosage of a medicine, but without understanding the pros and cons a patient is consuming the, medicine. Infact, a patient do not know about the medicine may not plan his health care properly.

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Mr.J.Jayaseelan, the secretary of the Indian Pharmacy said, “five hundred pharmacy students will go on rounds on Wednesday and cover about 1000 pharmacies in the city. They will stay out side of each pharmacy for an hour, receive people who come there and explain the ways and means to be followed while purchasing a drug explain the ways and means to be followed while purchasing a drug and using it. This will include how to identity a properly registered pharmacist, information that has to be looked for in the medicine they purchase, queries that have to be asked to a pharmacist, details about using the medicines and sharing it”.

The student groups which will involve in this awareness camp involve final B.Pharm students, M.Pharm students and doctoral candidates doing pharm D from 7 pharmacy colleges. They will be clearly instructed and given guideline to move with the people and to educate them.

The guidelines published in the English daily “Deccan Chronicle” are very much useful in this regard.

1. The symptoms of some medicines are same, but cause of illness may be different. So the patient should not take the same medicine prescribed for some body else. The medicine used mush prescribed by a doctor specifically for an individual.

2. Medium can have certain side-effects. The patients are supposed to enquire and know about these side effects from the doctors and pharmaticals.

3. Few medicines may create drowsiness, and the patients, of feels so, better to consult the doctor and know about it.

4. If a patient is prescribed with antibiotics, and to TB drugs etc by a doctor, they are supposed to complete the entire course with out shipping it in the middle when get the disease cored. If the course is not completed the disease may replace later with more severe form

5. Treatment of chronicle disease like diabetes, hypertension usually needs life-long treatment and the medium should not be stopped by the patient with out consulting a doctor.

6. If a patient wants to take medicines from Ayurvedic, homeopathic, unani and other herbal medicines, they may also have side effects. Better to consult the concern qualified specialists.

7. Strictly self medicines have to be avoided.

8. Alcohol should not be consumed with medicines

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