Hyderabad: More than 5,500 pharmacy students have been left high and dry as the government committee set up to employ them in government hospitals has not even met once to decide on their fate.
The state government had constituted a committee to study the problems of pharmacy students and look at opportunities to employ them in government hospitals.
“Clinical pharmacists are required in both government and private hospitals to ensure that medical dosages to patients are of the right order,” said Dr Chandrasekar Nayak, president, Doctor of Pharmacy Association in Telangana.
They are needed to record adverse drug reactions and also misuse of antibiotics at the hospital level. These are the key functions of pharmacists for which reason their employment in hospitals is important, he said.
At present, only 70 pharmacists have got jobs in private accredited hospitals. Others are not employed and are forced to opt for jobs elsewhere, sources said.
