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Visit of President and
Executive Vice President to Srinagar |
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Mr. R. Parameswar, President and
Dr. Usha Gupta, Executive Vice President made a visit to
Srinagar in the third week of June 08, on the invitation of
Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) Government, to help the state to formulate
a Drug Policy. After a round of meetings with principals of
medical colleges, leading clinicians, specialists and the
Principal Secretary to the Government of J&K – Department of
Health, they gave a draft of a State Drug Policy. A second round
of discussion was convened by the Principal Secretary to discuss
the draft policy. The draft Drug Policy is now to be taken to
the J&K Council of Ministers.
During discussion, the Principal Secretary indicated that he
would be looking forward to DSPRUD to provide technical support
for implementing some aspects of the Drug Policy after it is
approved by the Government. |
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Training Programme on Rational
Use of Medicines for Pharmacists |
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A Two-day Workshop for Pharmacists
on Rational Use of Medicines was organized by the Delhi Society
for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD), jointly with
the Directorate of Health Services on March 25 – 26, 2008, at
the Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences (IHBAS),
Delhi.
The course was appropriately enough inaugurated by Dr. S.S.
Agrawal, Principal of Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
and Research (DIPSAR), New Delhi. Although workshops for
pharmacists had been held earlier, this was the first workshop
with primary focus on sensitizing pharmacists to rational use of
medicines.
Inaugurating the workshop, Dr. Agrawal highlighted how
pharmacists can play an important role in the safe use of
medicines, in patient medication counselling, preventing drug
interactions and in identifying prescription errors.
The topics covered in the workshop included the role of
pharmacists in
a) promoting rational use of drugs.
b) procurement process.
c) quantification of drug needs.
d) drug interactions and ADR monitoring.
e) managing drug stores.
The workshop was interactive and there were group exercises. The
workshop was attended by 32 pharmacists from different hospital
and dispensaries of the Government of NCT of Delhi.
In the post workshop evaluation, the participants welcomed this
training programme both as recognition of the importance of
in-service training programme for pharmacists and their role in
promoting rational use of medicines. They suggested that more
such programmes should be organized so as to cover larger number
of pharmacists.
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Training Programme on Rational
Use of Medicines for Doctors |
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Sensitizing
doctors working in the hospitals/dispensaries of
Government of NCT of Delhi on Rational Use of Medicines |
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in association with the
Directorate of Health Services, Government of NCT of Delhi, the
Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD)
organized four workshops In February & March,2008, for
sensitizing doctors on rational use of medicines in the G.B.
Pant Hospital. For each workshop a theme-based topic was chosen.
These were (i) Impact of irrational prescribing on treatment
outcomes and economic outcomes; (ii) Building up of resistance
in patients consequent on irrational use of antimicrobials;
(iii) Rational as well as irrational drug combinations and fixed
dose combinations with special reference to anti-tuberculosis
drugs (DOTS Programme) and drug use in GIT ailments; and (iv)
current concept of treatment of hypertension.
In all, about 350 doctors drawn from government hospitals and
dispensaries participated. The workshops were enlivened by
active participation of some of the senior doctors. The
participants had an opportunity to be addressed by eminent
professionals which included Professor Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Dr.
A.K. Agarwal – Dean, Maulana Azad Medical College and other
faculty drawn from government and private hospitals, as also the
office bearers of DSPRUD.
The participants welcomed this initiative to sensitize them on
rational use of medicines and making them aware of consequences
of irrational use of medicines.
It is proposed to have similar workshops to sensitize all the
remaining doctors in the Public Health Department of Government
of NCT of Delhi.
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Training Programme on Rational
Use of Medicines for Nurses |
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A Two-day Workshop for Nurses on
Rational Use of Medicines was inaugurated by Mr. T. Dileep
Kumar, President – Indian Nursing Council, and Nursing Advisor
to Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. The
workshop was organized by the Delhi Society for Promotion of
Rational Use of Drugs jointly with the Directorate of Health
Services at the Ahilya Bai College of Nursing, New Delhi, on
February 26 – 27.
Welcoming the Chief Guest and the participants, the President of
the Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD),
Mr. R. Parameswar said that though the training courses on
rational use of medicines had been held for doctors and
pharmacists in the past in Delhi, this was the first ever
workshop, on the subject, held for nurses. The workshop is in
recognition of the fact that nurses play an important role in
health care and can contribute significantly in reducing
mortality, morbidity and disability and improving maternal and
child health care. He said that based on the experience of this
workshop, similar workshops would be organized in the future.
The two-day course, according to the Executive Vice President of
DSPRUD, Dr. Usha Gupta, covered a variety of subjects relevant
to the profession of nursing such as ‘Problem of irrational use
of drugs’, ‘Adverse drug reactions’, ‘Medication errors’ and
‘Infection control’. The participants had an opportunity to
interact with a number of specialists who spoke on a range of
subjects relevant to the profession of nursing.
Mr. Dileep Kumar, while inaugurating the workshop, lauded the
efforts of DSPRUD and the Delhi Government for organizing a
training programme of this nature. He said that nurses perform a
variety of functions but their core function is related to the
administration of medicines to patients and, hence, the
relevance of the workshop on rational use of medicines cannot be
overstressed. On medication errors, he said that it had been
reported that over 80,000 deaths in U.S.A. were due to medical
errors. No corresponding statistics were available for India. It
was of the utmost importance that nurses should have proper
in-service training on correct use of medicines so as to
minimize if not eliminate medication errors. He said that apart
from holding training programmes for nurses, the time had come
to include rational use of medicines in the curriculum of
undergraduate and graduate courses for nursing. Major
authorities involved are Ministry of Health & Family Welfare,
Government of India, Indian Nursing Council and the Trained
Nurses Association of India. He looked forward to an alliance
between these three authorities on the one hand, and the Delhi
Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs on the other to
strengthen all aspects of training of nurses.
About 40 nurses drawn from the major hospitals of the Delhi
Government attended the training course.
Dr. Jilie Devi, Director Health Services, Government of NCT of
Delhi, distributed the certificates to the participants. Dr.
Sangeeta Sharma, Secretary-cum-Treasurer of DSPRUD proposed the
vote of thanks.
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