INDIAN PHARMACIST ASSOCIATION

Congratulation to all pharmacist- community in India , for getting a milestone decision in the history of the Delhi govt. with the blesses of God ,encouragement of of friends and with sincere, rational , and committed efforts & the will power of PGWA- the Pharmacy Graduates Welfare Association, we have won the court case in [...]

Changing pillow covers every week, rubbing and polishing every corner till it was spotlessly dust-free, wearing masks while travel and a host of other things were a part of homemaker Swati Bodhe’s routine for her son Aarav’s (name changed) protection against asthma attack. Her six-year-old son who was suffering from childhood asthma was prone to [...]

India on Wednesday launched its first indigenously launched anti-malaria new-age drug ‘Synriam’. The drug, produced by Ranbaxy Laboratories, was formally introduced for marketing here. The drug, launched by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in the presence of Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, has been developed by the company in collaboration with the Department of [...]

The Drugs Controller General of India has asked the manufacturers to add “box warning” on its label, suggesting that its use to be restricted to 10 days.  If longer clinical use is necessary then liver function test should be assessed periodically. Manufacturers are directed to incorporate the said box warning in a conspicuous manner on [...]

Finding a blood donor in emergency situations is a complex task, especially if the blood group is rare. To make the effort easier, the Indian Blood Bank Society (IBBS) has launched a web portal that would help to contact a donor and also for becoming a donor. The web portal http://www.indianbloodbank.com and the activities of [...]

Regd. Ref.No.10-88/2011-PCI/47355-88                                         Dated : 2.3.2012 ALL THE STATE GOVTS. & UNION TERRITORIES   Sub:    Grant of study leave to in-service Diploma pharmacist to undergo Pharm.D course.   Sir/Madam The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) is a statutory body working under the Ministry of Health and F.W., Government of India.  It is constituted under the Pharmacy Act, 1948 to regulate pharmacy [...]

PCI has written to all state govt. and union govt. that In-service diploma/B. Pharma pharmacists be given an opportunity to upgrade their qualification and skills and granted study leave to undergo Pharm.D. course.  This will help the pharmacists to acquire new skills and utilize it for the betterment of public health.

Demanding immediate filling up of the posts of pharmacists in government hospitals and PHCs and pressing for various other demands, the Tamil Nadu Pharmacist Welfare Association (TNPWA), a body of unemployed pharmacists  in association with Indian Pharmacist Association has taken out a rally in Chennai, in which about 6000 registered pharmacists took part. Later the [...]

Thousands of pharmacists in the country are agitated over the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)’s indifferent attitude in maintaining the updated Central Register of pharmacists that provides exact data and information about the number and thestatus of pharmacists in the country. The agitated pharmacists said that the PCI has so far failed to maintain the [...]

Extension of time granted to the Department-related  Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare for presentation of its Report on the National Commission for Human Resources for Health Bill, 2011 ————————————————————————– The National Commission for Human Resources for Health Bill, 2011was referred to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare on [...]

Railway Board Issues Orders for granting one extra increment for those with increment between Feb to June 2006 as per National Anomaly Committee meeting item No. 5 (v) dated 05.01.2012. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA/BHARAT SARKAR MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS/RAIL MANTRALAYA (RAILWAY BOARD) S.No. PC-VI/2801 RBF No.40/2012 No.PC-VI/2012/I/RSRP/1 New Delhi, dated 23.03.2012 The GMs/CAOs(R), All Indian Railway & Production Units (As per [...]

Health activists say that inadequate tuberculosis treatments and lack of regulation of drugs that treat it are responsible for the spiraling number of cases of drug resistance to the lethal lung disease. Health workers said on Friday that India adds an estimated 99,000 cases of drug-resistant TB every year but only a tiny fraction received [...]

Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 — Date of next increment in the revised pay structure under Rule 10 of the CCS(RP) Rules, 2008.

A government doctor was suspended in Bikaner on Friday for allegedly prescribing branded medicine to the patients and also forcing the patients to purchase the medicines from drug shops outside the hospital. It is the first case in which a doctor was suspended by the medical health and family welfare department for prescribing branded medicine since [...]

With a view to further promoting the rational use of drugs particularly in key therapeutic areas, the Health Ministry is mulling the idea of framing treatment guidelines for diseases like HIV, TB and Malaria programmes. The proposed prescription guidelines will be made applicable not only in the government centres that are extending treatment for HIV [...]