Abstract

COMMUNITY PHARMACIST: NEED OF INDIAN SOCIETY

Savita S. Patil*, Priyanka A. Ahire, Shalaka V. Patil, Vilasrao J. Kadam and Kunika J. Shinde

ABSTRACT

Today, community pharmacists play a really vital role in any country as they take responsibility for patient‘s medication connected needs for access to tending. Community pharmacies are not alone a valuable health quality, but to boot a really vital social quality, as a result of typically they are the only real health facility set in an exceeding neighborhood of deprivation. Pharmacy staff have the potential to play an important role in rising the health of deprived communities by providing convenient and simply access to health improvement services. The aim of the study was to clarify and describe the virtuoso scopes and roles of community caregiver and to identify the factors probably to own a sway on the management and health care services. Pharmacists in community pharmacies dispense medications, counsel patients on the use of prescription and over-the-counter medications, and advise physicians relating to medication treatment. They to boot advise patients relating to general health topics, like diet, exercise, and stress management, and provide information on merchandise, like durable medical instrumentality or home healthcare provides.

Keywords: Roles of Community Pharmacist, Community Pharmacist, Counselling, Health care, OTC drug, Smoking Cessation, Drug Misuse.