Despite pleas to the state government to employ clinical pharmacists in government hospitals
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Hyderabad: Pharmacists are objecting to online e-pharmacies stating that it will only add to their unemployment rather than solve problems.
Like chemists, they too have decided to agitate, to draw the government’s attention to their unemployment status and the manner in which most of them have to switch to other fields as they are not getting employment.
There are 6,000 pharmacists in the two telugu states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and only 800 of them have been able to get jobs in the pharmacy sector.
Mr Sai Kumar, a pharmacist said, “There is strong opposition from pharmacy associations in all states against this online drug trade. It will only increase the existing unemployment among qualified pharmacists.”
Despite pleas to the state government to employ clinical pharmacists in government hospitals, there have been no concrete steps, which has angered many of them.
The Union Health Ministry has introduced Pharmacy Practice Regulations 2015 but it is not yet introduced by the state government, adding to their increasing woes.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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