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The purpose of this blog 'Health Buffer' is to provide resourceful information about the health topics, pharmaceutical products, medicinal use, pharmacist occupation an details of pharmacy professoin in developing countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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Basic Challanges of Pharmacy Profession in Pakistan

Pakistan is the 6th most crowded nation on the planet with more than 22 crore people according to world's meter .  After the autonomy of Pakistan (August 1947), the Punjab University was the first institute to build up a three-year single program called B-pharm in 1948 which was reached out to four years in 1978-1979. In 2003, a stage towards further change was seen when the Higher education Commission (HEC) redesigned its B-Pharm program to a five-year Specialist PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy) program.  Right now the Pakistani PharmD program is confronting various issues which are going about as an obstacle to pharmacists and the foundation of practice as a profession. The purpose of this blog is to highlight these basic challanges so that the HEC  (Higher education commission) and the Pakistan Pharmacy Council  abbreviated as  PPC  can intercede to alter the professional framework so as to set up a decent establishment for pharmacists and to create...

Pharm D - Introduction, Scope, Career and Salary in Pakistan

A pharmacist is a healthcare professional who is specialized in the use of medicines and is responsible for the research, discovery and development of new drugs. Wherever there is a medicine, there will be pharmacist either it's a hospital, a pharmacy, a clinic or a pharmaceutical industry. Pharmacist directcly deals with the patients and counsels them in their health related problems and also guides them on safe use of medicines. This article will elaborate the  Pharm D - Introduction, Scope, Career and salary in Pakistan .                            Pharmacy degree in Pakistan: There are two types of pharmacy degrees in Pakistan i.e A-category and B-category. A-category is a 5 years degree program called Pharm-D or Doctor of Pharmacy and is issued by the pharmacy council of Pakistan. A-category is registered in register A in pharmacy council. While B-category is a 2 years degree program called pharmacy technici...

How Pharmacists can be Registered in United States

Working as a pharmacist in the United States of America is a dream for many students specially from the developing countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It's because of the highly paid sallaries to the pharmacists as compared to these developing countries. According to a  news report . ''In 2018, p harmacists made a median salary of about $126,120. The best-paid 25 percent made $145,870 that year, while the lowest-paid 25 percent made $111,340''. In addition to the sallaries, there are a lot of other oppurtunities that are provided to the pharmacists in the United States of America.       How to get registered as a Pharmacist in the U.S? Today I will share with you the steps in order to get pharmacist license in the US after graduating from a foreign school, specifically in the Paksiatan. The reason I’m writing this blog to provide you a road map for getting registerd as a pharmacist in the United States. I think that just like anyt...