Colleges of pharmacy and pharmacies are run by non-specialists and the results turn into misfortunes

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[size=52]Colleges of pharmacy and pharmacies are run by non-specialists and the results turn into misfortunes[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Ali Al-Hamdani[/size]
[size=45]A strange story told by the citizen Abu Sabah (55 years old) from Babil Governorate, when he was complaining of pain in his stomach at night, and decided to go to a pharmacy near his home to buy a painkiller, which kept him patient until the next morning to go to a specialist doctor who would examine his condition.[/size]
[size=45]Abu Sabah told Al-Mada: “One day I went to a pharmacy near my home after suffering from a health problem, and the pain was coming from the abdominal area. I explained to the pharmacist the condition I was feeling, and asked him to give me a painkiller to calm the pain until the morning, and then I would see a specialist doctor.” To accurately diagnose the condition.[/size]
[size=45]He added, “The pharmacist prescribed me (analgesic medication) according to what I thought at first, and I went home and took the medication, but the pain did not ease, but rather increased in intensity.”[/size]
[size=45]He continues, “After a long night with pain, I went out the next morning and went to the specialist doctor and explained my condition to him, and told him that I had taken medicine from the pharmacy and was carrying it in my hand. The doctor was surprised as soon as he saw this medicine, and said with a smile that this medicine is a contraceptive for women.”[/size]
[size=45]Abu Sabah points out that the doctor’s words put him in shock and created questions within him: How can a pharmacist dispense contraceptives for women to a man? How can he not pay attention to such cases, especially since they may lead to the death of citizens?[/size]
[size=45]Fake shops[/size]
[size=45]For his part, the head of the Pharmacists Syndicate in Iraq, Dr. Mustafa Al-Hiti, confirms that “pharmacies do not grant a license unless the holder of the license is a pharmacist, and it is impossible for it to be granted to someone other than a pharmacist, but there are fake stores whose owners impersonate the pharmacist, and this is punishable by law with imprisonment for three years.” “.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hiti added to (Al-Mada), “The Pharmacists Syndicate has cooperation against organized crime to eliminate such cases, and there are pharmacist inspectors who take legal measures against those stores that sell medicines.”[/size]
[size=45]He notes that “there are rare cases in which the pharmacist leaves the pharmacy simultaneously with the inspection process, and does not leave a pharmacist in his place, which leads to the closure of the pharmacy and the imposition of a legal penalty and fine against him.”[/size]
[size=45]He points out that “a person who opens a pharmacy while he is not a pharmacist is considered an outsider to this profession, impersonating a pharmacist, and is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment according to the law. Many operations have been carried out in Baghdad and the provinces in this regard.”[/size]
[size=45]He reveals, “In Baghdad, 220 fake stores were referred to the courts. It is absolutely not permissible for a pharmacy to be managed except by specialists, and it is also not permissible for medicine to be dispensed except by a pharmacist.”[/size]
[size=45]He asserts, “Educating the pharmacist in his academic studies is an important issue, but cases have been reported in some colleges of pharmacy in which the teachers are not specialized, which affects the students’ competence and this appears when they graduate and begin their work in pharmacies.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hiti calls on the Ministry of Higher Education “not to grant any license to public or private colleges unless the staff is fully staffed by specialists, whether teachers or the subjects they teach.”[/size]
[size=45]Pharmacy practice law[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the legal expert, Ahmed Jassim, told Al Mada that selling medicines in places other than those designated for them is a situation that has begun to appear recently in the country, in addition to the failure of some pharmacies to be managed by specialists, and this is held accountable by law, as Article Three of the law stipulates. Pharmacy Profession Practice Law No. (40) of 1970, amended as follows:[/size]
[size=45]First: A pharmacist may not have more than one store license in Iraq after six months have passed from the date of entry into force of this law.[/size]
[size=45]Second: Every shop must have a manager.[/size]
[size=45]Third: The owner of the license shall be the manager of his shop, and he may not assume the management of another shop if he relinquishes the management of his shop to someone else.[/size]
[size=45]Jassem confirms that the law imposes penalties on those who violate these articles, because they lead to harming the life of society, may threaten the internal security of the country, and reduce the patient’s confidence in treatment.[/size]
[size=45]Among the deterrents established by the law, according to Jassim, is Article (50), which stipulates: Anyone who:[/size]
[size=45]First: Whoever lapses into the pharmacy profession without a license, or obtains a license by opening a store by fraudulent means, with the aforementioned license being ruled invalid.[/size]
[size=45]Second: Whoever borrows the name of a pharmacist for the purpose of opening a store, as well as the pharmacist who lent his name for the same purpose, with a ruling to close the store that is the subject of the violation.[/size]
[size=45]Third: A person who is not licensed to practice the profession advertises himself in any means of publication if that would lead the public to believe that he has the right to practice it. The same applies to every pharmacist who allows an unlicensed person to practice the profession in his name in the pharmacy.[/size]
[size=45]Fourth: Whoever adulterates or counterfeits any of the medicines, medical preparations, or chemicals, or sells any of them that is adulterated or counterfeit.[/size]
[size=45]Fifth: Whoever sells or offers for sale any spoiled or damaged medicine, medical preparation, chemical substance, or medicinal plant.[/size]
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