Plan 1: Establishment of drug information centre in private retail pharmacy and how it works

Dr. Satish S 
Associate Professor
Srinivas College Of Pahrmacy Mangalore

Drug information centre is the facility provided for customers in retail pharmacy which can distinguish medical stores with online pharmacy includes drug information and related issues, where authentic, individulazied, accurate relevant and unbiased drug information are given.

Activities under drug information centre
Providing pharmaceutical care is our motto
Pharmaceutical care is the responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life.
Due current scenario of busy schedule  there is a need to emphasize that pharmacists spend more time in counseling and educating patients, Furthermore, patients should be trained to meet the  adherence to medication, use of devices by reminders so that making sure about regularity in  prescription filling.
Trend setter in the private pharmacy
In the competitive market to built stability and sustainity, only possible way is by maintaining professional standards and through innovations, this may be also prove as a ultimate remedy for the online pharmacy victims who lacks personalized approach, as the world is moving towards the personalized medicine.  A solution for how to save offline pharmacy/ medical stores form online pharmacy.
Community approach : To achieve this and to have good relation with customers some of the free services are provided only to the customer of the pharmacy which include recording of blood pressure, body weight, BMI, along with counseling. Occasionally celebrating  world health days in collaboration with sponsor patners.
A team(2-3) of Pharmacists who are trained and  drug experts with the skill in handling medication, look alike drugs, frequency of dosing, time of administration  and also  give answers for the quires related to medicine

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