1.

Registration under Sec.32(2) of the Pharmacy Act, 1948 :

®  No. of  Registered Pharmacists in Maharashtra as on  15^th August, 2010                                            

®  No. of  Pharmacists register with Maharashtra State Pharmacy Council every year                                  

®  No. of  PCI approved Pharmacy Degree Colleges in Maharashtra                                                             

®  Their Intake Capacity                                                                                                                              

®  No. of  PCI approved Pharmacy Diploma  Institutions In Maharashtra                                                                

®  Their Intake Capacity                                         

112030

  7000-8000 approx.

71

4070

151

9070

2.               

Pharmacist's Professional Profile (PPP):

®  Professional Identity card which is supplementary to registration certificate.

®  May be used to check the malpractices in the profession.

®  No. of  PPPs issued to Registered Pharmacists as on  15^th August, 2010

84706

3.

Pharmacy Inspectors : 

®  Appointed 5 Pharmacy Inspectors to implement the provisions of sec.42 of the Pharmacy Act,1948 in the state of Maharashtra .

No. of Inspections carried out till 30^th June,2010     

®  Private clinics/ dispensaries/ hospitals inspected                                                                    

®  Central Govt./State Govt./Semi Govt. & Charitable Trust institutions Inspected                         

®  Unregistered Medical Practitioners (Bogus) found                                                                                         

®  No.of court cases filed and disposed under section 42 of the Pharmacy Act,1948     

     (Dispensing by unregistered person)                                

23489

21029

1017

1541

5

4.

Penal removal of name under Section 36 of the Pharmacy Act,1948 and their

restoration under section 37  till 30^th June,2010

®  Those pharmacists who are guilty of committing an act which amounts to  Professional misconduct are penalised by council and they are given either warning  or their names are temporarily or permanently removed from register of pharmacists.

®  No. of pharmacists whose names are removed permanently.                                                            

®  No. of pharmacists whose names are removed for temporary period.                                                    

®  No. of pharmacists to whom warning has been issued.      

®  No. of pharmacists whose names are restored under section 37.      

5

36

18

18

5.

Refresher Courses  (Continued Education Programme - CEP) :

®  Council has in its premises Refresher Course Hall with required modern

      infrastructure. 

®   For registered pharmacists of Vidarbha  and Marathwada region, council has

      presently authorised a professional body CIPPARA, Nagpur to conduct R.C in

      that region.

®  No. of Refresher Courses conducted  till 15^th August, 2010                     

®  No.of Registered Pharmacists participated in these Refresher Courses

87

8567

6.

Felicitation :

®  Felicitation of the Pharmacists who have done meritorious job in the various fields of

     Pharmacy.  Also felicitated top ranking students of D.Pharm., B.Pharm. & M.Pharm.

®  No. of  Pharmacists Felicitated till  15^th August, 2010   

35

HIGHLIGHTS  OF Work/ Projects Done And Undertaken By DRUG INFORMATION CENTER

7.

Drug Information Centre (DIC) :       

A)

DRUG INTERACTIONS CHECKER FOR PRESCRIPTION (DICP) :-

We at DIC have created and launched first of its kind in the country, our own indigenous CD based interactive software to detect Drug-drug interactions for five therapeutic systems (antihypertensive, antidiabetic, antianginals, lipid lowering, antibiotics) as Part I and Part II would have checker for Anti -T.B. and Anti-retrovirals (for H.I.V./AIDS).

B)

PATIENT COUNSELING COURSE :-

MSPC's DIC has started training course in Patient Counseling for Community pharmacists for the F I R S T time in India .

C)

WHO PROJECTS :-

DIC has completed following World Health Organization funded projects :-

·                     Drug Information Leaflets (DILs).

Building of Database of Brands of Pharmaceutical Formulations and study the cases of misbranding and SALA Drugs responsible for medication errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat .  More important is that now this software tool has been published on WHO India country's official website and can be accessed by link www.whoindia.org/en/Section2/Section5_1476.htm.

DIC also has completed two projects funded by DSPRUD/World Health Organization :-

·                    Training of General Practitioners on Rational Use of Drugs as intervention to irrational prescribing using Time Series Methodology.

·                     Training of Community Pharmacists on Rational Use of Drugs as intervention to Inappropriate Self-Medication practices

                and lack of Patient Counseling.

D)

BOOKS PUBLISHED :-

·         Drug Interactions Manual   

·         Drugs Harmful in Pregnancy

·         Refresher Course Manual for Registered Pharmacists.

·         Good Storage Practices (GSP)

·         Drug Information Bulletin (Quarterly publication - Bilingual issue)

·         Essential Drugs list for children

·         Drugs to use with caution in Renal & Heptic Impairment (under publication).