All effective healthcare depends deeply on the safe and correct use of medicines, and the person in control of all these drugs and medicines are pharmacists.
Pharmacists are healthcare professionals who practice in the field on medical sciences that focus on the safe and effective medication use.
Many pharmacists undergo university-level training, and even retail-level pharmacists require at least a three years’ diploma on pharmacy. Pharmacists are capable of working in drug production companies with a Master’s degree and could even work in the production of daily medicines.
“Working as a pharmacist requires young people to study pharmacy at their Bachelor’s level and they need to be registered with the Nepal Pharmacy Council to be eligible to start up a pharmacy,” says 30-year-old Binod Ghimire, a medical salesperson at Medi-World on New Road, Kathmandu. “Pharmacists need to love the medical sciences, willing to learn chemistry and chemical compositions and their ongoing developments,” he adds.
Pharmacists can work as retail or industrial or research pharmacists and druggists.
In Nepal, Bachelor’s of Pharmacy (BPharm) is offered at Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu University, among other institutions.
Related story
For Hormone Treatment, Trans Nepalis Head to India-No Doctor Re...
