In the journey of health care, people often easily remember doctors with stressful surgeries, remember nurses with tireless night shifts, but pharmacists are rarely mentioned. However, from hospitals, disease control centers to pharmacies, they are still present quietly and persistently to contribute to keeping the community healthy.
Their work is not noisy, not much light, but is the "underground" that determines the safety of each pill, each bottle of vaccine and the trust of patients. World Pharmacists Day (September 25) is celebrated annually to honor the role and great contributions of pharmacists in the global health care system, including ensuring drug safety and improving public health.
According to Circular 22/2011/TT-BYT, the hospital pharmacy department has the function of managing and advising the hospital director on pharmaceutical work, ensuring adequate, timely, and quality drug supply, and consulting and supervising the safe and reasonable use of drugs. The main tasks include: drug supply management, drug preservation, drug preparation, clinical pharmacy, scientific research, training, participating in directing and controlling drug use in the hospital.
In particular, the clinical pharmacy and drug information department plays a very special role in the treatment process. Pharmacists in this department focus on participating with doctors in developing and monitoring treatment regimens; monitoring drug use to detect and prevent unwanted side effects and drug interactions; managing special drugs, especially antibiotics; providing information and advice to medical staff and patients; participating in research and developing treatment guidelines to improve the effectiveness and safety of patient care.
As one of the pharmacists in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Drug Information - Pharmacy Department - Provincial General Hospital, in recent times, pharmacist Nguyen Quang Sang (born in 1998) has made many contributions to the treatment of diseases. In particular, during the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic, he also participated in translating documents on drugs and vaccines, providing official references for colleagues.
“There are things that no one can see the results of immediately, but without them, patients will be at risk. I feel proud to be assigned to take on this important task,” said pharmacist Nguyen Quang Sang.
If in the hospital, pharmacists contribute to ensuring the safety of each patient, then in the prevention line, they shoulder responsibility for the whole community. At the Provincial Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Department of Pharmacy - Medical Supplies is considered a solid "rear". They quietly carry out the task of receiving, preserving, and supplying vaccines for the entire province; reporting on the situation of biological products, chemicals, drugs, supplies and equipment to serve the activities of programs to prevent non-communicable diseases, HIV, AIDS, malnutrition, control of infectious diseases, etc.; and ensuring the distribution of vaccines to serve the expanded immunization programs throughout the province.
Pharmacist CKI Tran Thi Cam Thach - Head of Pharmacy - Medical Supplies Department, CDC Ha Tinh shared: "Although we do not directly hold the stethoscope or stand in front of the operating table, we play an important role in disease prevention and community health care. Especially, during the peak of epidemics and natural disasters, regardless of day or night or rain or wind, we are always ready on the front line to carry out the task of community health care.
I am always proud that during the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, storms and floods, the pharmacists of CDC Ha Tinh have been reflected on the refrigerated trucks rolling at night, delivering vaccines and medical supplies in time to remote districts. There is pressure and hardship, but it is a humane mission that we are fortunate to undertake."
If in hospitals and CDCs, pharmacists are often associated with records, drug warehouses, and procedures, then at pharmacies, they become familiar friends of the people. There are no white coats in tense consultations, nor are there vaccine management charts. Pharmacists here patiently listen to patients describe their symptoms, gently advise on dosages, and even refuse to sell drugs when they know they will cause harm. It is these seemingly small instructions that help countless people avoid risks and stay healthy.
Pharmacist Phan Thi Linh - owner of Viet Nhan Pharmacy in Thanh Sen Ward (Ha Tinh City) shared: "For me, the drug business is not just about trading, but first of all about maintaining the safety of people's health. Selling drugs is not necessarily as fun as successfully advising people to take the right medicine and take it enough."
Regardless of the working environment, every pharmacist is an indispensable link in the journey of human health care. And perhaps, silence is the unique light of the pharmacy profession, the light that makes people believe more in medical ethics and hope for life.
Source: https://baohatinh.vn/anh-sang-tham-lang-cua-nganh-y-post296171.html
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