Community pharmacy in Tangail region of Bangladesh: Current impression: DOI: https://doi.org/10.54037/WJPS.2021.9901

Israt Jahan Ira; Md Akib Jahan; Effat Jahan Eva; Sayema Arefin

Authors

Israt Jahan Ira Department of Pharmacy, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail- 1902, Bangladesh
Md Akib Jahan MD resident (Cardiology), Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Effat Jahan Eva FCPS Part-2 trainee, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sayema Arefin Department of Pharmacy, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University, Santosh, Tangail- 1902, Bangladesh

Keywords:

Community Pharmacy, Bangladesh, antibiotics, sedatives

Abstract

Community pharmacists are the health professionals most accessible to the public. They supply medicines in accordance with a prescription or, when legally permitted, sell them without a prescription. The current study was conducted to reveal the present condition of community pharmacy in Tangail, Bangladesh and for these 25 retail pharmacies were visited. From the study it is clear that the sector of community pharmacy is so deferred and yet to be developed in this country. There is scarcity of professionals and the sector is mostly dependent on B and C grade pharmacists. There was no ‘A’ grade pharmacist found in this study, 5% of them are ‘B’ grade who completed 3 months diploma course and 95% of them are ‘C’ grade pharmacists who rarely did a 3-4 months course. 12% of the pharmacists are very aged and it is very risky to depend on them. 74% of the pharmacist’s counsel patients without any prescription and among them 70% suggest antibiotics which is very alarming. 87.5% of them give sedative drugs without any prescription. Appropriate measures should be taken to improve the present scenario of Community pharmacy in Bangladesh.