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NATIONAL PHARMACY WEEK 2009-10

Dear Pharmacists,

Every year the IPA celebrates the 'National Pharmacy Week' (NPW) all over India in the third week of November. NPW this year will be from November 15th onwards. For the last few years, IPA has been recommending that the activities and celebrations based on the theme should continue the whole year round, with enthusiasm and zeal. This will help us give more time to our efforts, and also sustain it round the year!

The theme for this year is:

'MAKE PHARMACY YOUR CAREER'

This year's theme has been mooted by me, as President of Indian Pharmaceutical Association, to motivate students towards the field of Pharmacy. The practice of pharmacy is a vital part of a complete health care system. The number of people requiring health care services has steadily increased, and this trend is likely to continue.

But the awareness among the people, particularly class 12th students, has to be increased a lot. It is a well known fact that Pharmacy Profession is going through a difficult phase which is evident by fewer admissions in the pharmacy colleges across the country. We have to prevent this stagnation which is plaguing our pharmacy profession. This can only be done by making the best use of this opportunity, plan and conduct activities in propagating the message, and bring forward the potentials and benefits of a pharmacist in the healthcare system. We can use this as an opportunity to make known to the public various aspects of pharmacy, its importance, various career options, and opportunities.

We should aim to spread the message far and wide in society that there exist pharmacists and their importance!

I have included material highlighting the career opportunities in pharmacy under the section "To Youth" of this website. Download it and propagate the information to

1) School & High School students from STD 9th to 12th.

2) Parents of these students

3) General Public

Now that we have the IPA - SF, the strong force of students (which generally forms the backbone of our NPW activities), we can now more vigorously channelize them, by working together with the state branches & representatives of IPA SF.

-Dr. B Suresh