| Status of Health delivery systems and definition of role of hospitals. Hospital pharmacy, definition, functions and objectives of hospital pharmacy. Drug distribution systems in hospitals. Establishment of OTC counter and dispensing. Maintenance of records of issue of narcotic and dangerous drugs. Medical stores. Pharmacy therapeutics committee. Drug information service and drug information bulletin. Manufacture of pharmaceuticals in hospitals: Sterile and non sterile manufacture. Nomenclature and uses of surgical instruments, equipments and health accessories. Introduction to clinical pharmacy practice. Functioning and working of clinical pharmacy unit. Methodology and techniques of analysis of drug contents and metabolites in blood and biological fluids. Biological half-life, pKa, pH partition. Pharmacist and patient counseling. Drug interactions. Adverse drug interactions. Drugs in clinical toxicity. Designing treatment protocols. |
Administrative assistant: RAINA FERHANA HOSSENBUX
Telephone: 4037400
Email: r.hossenbux@uom.ac.mu |
