PHARMACY COUNCIL OF BANGLADESH

Establishment:
Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh is formed in 1976 under the guidelines of Pharmacy Council Ordinance 1976.

Scope and Activities
Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh (PCB) is a semi-government agency that can provide scope for the graduate pharmacists. The council can be considered as the controlling authority of pharmacy education and practice. Recently, 8 pharmacists are working in PCB with advanced level of performance. The pharmacists working in this field ensure the highest standard of quality required for pharmacy training and practice in different academia

COMMUNITY PHARMACY IN BANGLADESH

The plethora of manufactured drug products and the abundance of physicians coupled with the propensity to prescribe multiple products for various concurrent ailments present an opportunity for pharmacists in community practice. The community pharmacy can broadly be considered as community-based pharmacy. The main responsibilities of a community pharmacy include compounding, counseling and dispensing of drugs on prescription to the patients with care, accuracy and legality. Appropriate procurement, storage, dispensing and documentation of medicines are within the purview of its professional responsibilities. It is an important branch of the pharmacy profession and involves a qualified and pertinent pharmacist. Being closely in contact with general people, the community pharmacists should have the required education, skills and competence to deliver the professional service to the community.
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Pharmacists in community pharmacy practice, whether independent or chain settings, are slowly shifting their focus from the drug product to patient service. Yet the shift of attention from drug product to patient does not find its genesis solely for the satisfaction of pharmacist needs, aspiration or even in altruism. This change is an exigency for their professional survival. Without a change in focus from drug product to patient service, pharmacists, themselves will be in danger of displacement. Refocusing from drug product to patient has caused the pharmacy profession to develop newer skills and explore the diversified dimension of community pharmacy which need insight both into drug effects ( eg. understanding drug action, kinetics and interactions) and patient dynamics (i.e. learning how to communicate with and educate patients regarding drug, disease and dosage regimen).

INDUSTRIAL PHARMACY IN BANGLADESH

In our country industrial pharmacy offers opportunities to qualified graduate pharmacists in an industrial environment. The greatest number of pharmacists are involved in production, marketing and administration. The section 13(1) of drug control ordinance (1982) categorically says that the overall supervision of drug production must be done by a qualified graduate pharmacist. Thereby, the production supervisory positions in industrial plant are always held by pharmacists with bachelor’s degrees. Apart from production, there are many other areas in which an industrial pharmacist can specialize. Pharmacists with master’s degree in business find opportunities in pharmaceutical industries in marketing, sales and legal departments. After 22 years of the promulgation of drug policy(1982), the drug business has jumped from 250 crore taka to almost 3000 crore taka. At the same time the import of drugs has dropped from 90% to 5%. This has been materialized by the efficient contribution of pharmacists. In marketing and product management, determining strategies, developing promotional materials and marketing research are the areas of interest for pharmacists. Quality control supervisory positions are also often held by pharmacists. Pharmacists sometimes develop their career as research and development personnel. Development of stable, aesthetic and cost-effective pharmaceutical products is a highly specialized area where an industrial pharmacist because of his pharmaceutical know-how and multidisciplinary background plays the most vital role. Because of high legal, ethical and moral responsibility, the industrial pharmacists ensures the full compliance with good manufacturing practice, good laboratory practice in an industrial set up.

Sometimes, manufacturers employ pharmacists as sales representatives who provide the link between the manufacturers on one hand and pharmacists and doctors on the other.

HOSPITAL PHARMACY IN BANGLADESH

Hospital and other institutions and facilities, such as outpatient clinics, drug?dependency treatment facilities, poison control centres drugs information and long?term care facilities, may be operated by the government or privately. While many of the pharmacist's activities in such facilities may be similar to those performed by community pharmacists they differ in a number of ways. Additionally, the hospital or institutional pharmacist:

has more opportunity to interact closely with the prescriber and therefore, to promote the rational prescribing and use of drugs;

in larger hospital and institutional pharmacies, usually one of several pharmacists, has a greater opportunity to interact with others, to specialise and to gain greater expertise;

having access to medical records, is in a position to influence the selection of drugs and dosage regimens, to monitor patient compliance and therapeutic response to drugs, and to recognise and report adverse drugs reactions;

can more easily than the community pharmacist assess and monitor patterns of drugs usage and thus recommend changes where necessary

serves as a member of policy making committees, including those concerned with drug selection, the use of antibiotics, and hospital infections (Drug and Therapeutics Committee) and thereby influences the preparation and composition of essential ?drug list of formulary; 0 is in a better position to educate other professionals about the rational use of drugs

more easily participates in studies to determine the beneficial or adverse effects of drugs, and is involved in the analysis of drugs in body fluids

can control hospital manufacture and procurement of drugs to ensure the supply of highquality products;

The Rise of Pharmaceutical Sector of Bangladesh

In Bangladesh Pharmaceutical sector is one of the most developed hitech sector which is contributing in the country's economy. After the promulgation of Drug Control Ordinance - 1982, the development of this sector was accelerated. The professional knowledge, thoughts and innovative ideas of the pharmacists working in this sector are the key factors for this developments. Due to recent development of this sector we are exporing medicines to global market including European market. This sector is also providing 95% of the total medicine requirement of the local market. Leading Pharmaceutical Companies are expanding their business with the aim to expand export market. Recently few new industries have been established with hitech equipments and professionals which will enhance the strength of this sector.

bd pharma situation

Now this time bangladesh have a big pharmaceutical company. Bangladesh earn a lot of forgien currency by exporting pharmaceutical product. Though bd export product but here don"t have any raw materials producing plant. more then 300 national and multinational company produce pharmaceuticals product

bd pharmaceuticals company

bangladeshi leading parmaceuticals companies are square pharmaceuticals ltd, incepta pharmaceutical ltd, general parmaceuticals ltd, beximco pharmaceuticals ltd. now they export their product more then 54 companies.

BD PHARMACY INFO

BD PHARMACY SECTOR ARE DEVELOPING DAY BY DAY. NOW MORE THEN 25 UNIVERSITY(GOVT & PRIVATE) START THEIR PHARMACY COURSE. THE DAKA UNIVERSITY START THEIR COURSE FROM 1969. KHULNA UNIVERSITY ALSO FAMOUS FOR PHARMACY COURSE. THE STUDENT WHO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THEIR COURSE GET BETTER JOBS AND ALSO BETTER POSSITION IN HOME AND ABROAD