Abstract

DRUG STORE MANAGEMENT IN MEDICAL SHOPS – A SURVEY REPORT

Sunisha Kulkarni*, Anisha Agrawal, Anshul Jain and Rajendra Chauhan

Abstract

Health care industry is growing with fast pace across globe with increase in the number of health care centres / clinics / hospitals to meet the requirements of the patients. At the same rate the number of medical stores are also being set up as per the needs. It doesn‗t mean all medical stores do wonders irrespective of competition, place and investment. The increasing complexity of the drug therapy with its potential adverse side effects along with the danger of drug abuse has brought into focus the important role of both the pharmacists and pharmacy workers in the health care system. In India, initially training was imparted primarily for preparing manpower for the tasks of compounding and dispensing according to prescriptions written by medical practitioners. But with the introduction and increasing availability of ready-to-use medicines pre-packaged in required dosages, the need of compounding and dispensing has become redundant. Yet the basic knowledge, concepts, notion even hypothesis is still similarly important and essential to run a pharmacy at different state in the country. Medical stores must have a system for classifying or organizing medicines and must ensure that all employees know the system being used. This paper gives us an idea about storage of drugs in medical shops of Gwalior region in Madhya Pradesh.

Keywords: organizing medicines, hypothesis, medical practitioners.