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Worldwide, it is estimated that over half of all medicines are prescribed, dispensed or
sold inappropriately, and that half of all patients fail to take their medicine correctly.
Medicines are used rationally when patients receive the appropriate medicines, in doses
that meet their own individual requirements, for an adequate period of time, and at the
lowest cost both to them and their community. Irrational use occurs when one (or more)
of these conditions is not met. In spite of available tools and information on how to
measure medicines use and the intervention strategies needed to achieve this, irrational
use continues to occur. This is wasteful, expensive and dangerous, both to the health of
the individual patient and to the population as a whole. Inappropriate use of medicines,
and the related illness and deaths, are not restricted to low-income countries.The scope
of pharmacy practice includes more traditional roles such as compounding and
dispensing medications, and it also includes more modern services related to patient
care, including clinical services, reviewing medications for safety and efficacy, and
providing drug information. Hospital pharmacy plays a pivotal role in patient care in a
hospital. Hospital pharmacists serve as a link between physicians and patients to
promote better patient outcomes. But it is matter of great regret that in Bangladesh, a
developing country, people are totally unknown to the responsibilities of hospital
pharmacist, even they do not seek for recruit for hospital pharmacist in any hospital
except a few aristocrat hospitals. There is no Drug information center in any hospital in
Bangladesh. More over, in out national Health Policy and National Drug Policy, there is
no rules and regulation of giving prescribing information to the patients. So the patients
remain out of this knowledge of right use of medication. To find out the drug information
status with Prescription in Government Hospitals in Bangladesh, a survey programme
was conducted in three areas namely Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital Faridpur
Medical College Hospital and Madhukhali Thaana Health Complex and Tongi
Government hospital. Firstly, the data was collected from the areas with the help of a
prepared sample collection form and, then the analysis of the data and finding out the
subjected outcomes. The main objective of the study was to improve the drug
information pattern with prescription, to know about the health status of the patients.
enhance the rational use of drug and ensure the proper public health care. The present
study has limitations since only three areas were considered for the study and thus the
results obtained are apparent but not exact for the national picture. |
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