Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, Pune to organise national conference on pharmacy

Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital (ABMH), Pune will organise a national conference on pharmacy ‘ABMH-Pharma Con 2013’ on September 21 and 22, 2013. The two-day conference will witness more than 300 participants including speakers and delegates from renowned hospitals and pharma institutes all over India.

Eminent healthcare executives mainly the CEOs, COOs, medical administrators, quality heads from hospitals like Apollo Hospitals, Ahmedabad; Max Hospital, New Delhi; Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research, New Delhi; Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai; Medica Synergy, Kolkata; LH Hiranandani, Mumbai; TNMC & BYL Nair, Mumbai; Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, Chennai other dignitaries from various bodies mainly Ministry of Health, Maharashtra, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, UP, ADIC, Kerala, Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Pharmacy Group, Maharashtra State board of Technical Education, Pune, Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India amongst others, will discuss various aspects of pharmacist’s role

The two-day conference will cover various aspects of pharmacist’s role like rational use of medicines, legal limitations and modalities of home delivery, e-medications, steps towards patient safety, the emerging threats and challenges of alcoholism, NDPS and substance abuse in India and other roles of pharmacists in management of data and analysis. Multidisciplinary panel discussion will be held on few topics. The conference will also have paper presentation sessions on the second day.

“ABMH- PharmaCon 2013 is a good platform for all of us from the healthcare sector to review the role of pharmacists and identify their core responsibilities to make them effectively contribute into the quality delivery of healthcare. Such conferences provide healthcare professionals proactive measures to improve the patient care and safety. We feel other established healthcare institutions should also take up this sort of similar initiative to address the issues of patient medication and its efficacy to improve the overall quality of healthcare delivery in India,” said Rekha Dubey, COO, Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai