AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON COMMUNITY PHARMACY
ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY PHARMACIST OF INDIA
(MATHURA BRANCH)
ASK YOUR PHARMACIST, KNOW YOUR MEDICINE
Organized By:
Association of community pharmacist of India (Mathura branch)
had organized a Health awareness program in GLA university on Saturday,2nd
Feb 2013.
This program was based on ‘ASK YOUR PHARMACIST, KNOW YOUR MEDICINES’.
Basically the objective of such type of program is to make
people aware about their health situation. Hence with the aid of many
instruments, chart papers, posters, speech, standees this program was held for
the sake of mankind.
Atleast 30 young community pharmacist had participated to
give their full efforts for organizing the program
The following motives were delivered to the peoples of
society regarding their knowledge about health.
INFORMATION ABOUT NUTRITIONAL REQUIRMENT OF
BODY: The height and weight is the major parameter of growth for a
human being. Hence height and weight of people was taken and accordingly their
BMI (Basal Metabolic Index) was calculated and informed them regarding their
health.
The information about different nutrient rich food sources
were also delivered to them also.
INFORMATION ABOUT BLOOD AND RELATED DISORDER: In this the
blood pressure of people was measured because blood pressure is the major cause
of disease now a days and then also told them if any discomfort they are
having.
The Blood groups of persons of society was also checked.
INFORMATION ABOUT DRUG INTERACTION: Actually
sometimes it is necessary to take two or more medicines simultaneously, hence
people should know about that the both drug should not interact with each other
because it can cause toxicity and depletion of pharmacological effect.
INFORMATION ABOUT COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT: In a society peoples are also very much prone to
develop communicable disease due to unhygienic conditions and excessive
contaminations.
Hence various precausitive measures were told to the people
to make people prevent about communicable disease.
INFORMATION ABOUT PERSONAL HYGIENE: Unhygienic
conditions are very much causative for contamination of food articles and
germination of microbes that will lead to generation of many disease.
Hence peoples were came to know about what conditions they
should adopt for being hygienic so that they can remain far from diseases.
INFORMATION ABOUT DRUG ALLERGY AND SIDE EFFECT: Actually
each and every medicines are having their own side effects. Various allergic
reactions are also one of the side effect, hence peoples were known about side
effects of various medicines.
INFORMATION ABOUT SAFE USE OF MEDICINES: What
precautions should follow during uptake and purchase of medicines. Hence
persons were known about all that precautions and cares. Information about storage
of medicines were also delivered to the
peoples of society.
INFORMATION ABOUT OTC MEDICINE AND VACCINATION: OTC
medicine, we can take ourself without any advice of RMP. Hence peoples were
came to know about various OTC medication and also about vaccination schedule
of many diseases.
So, from all the above program we had awared about 160
peoples of our society regarding their health and information related to the
medications that they were not known.
We also put our more efforts in future to make more people
alert about their health and related problems…..
Report By :
AVADH K GOYAL
ASHISH RAJPUT
MATHURA
“HEALTH IS WEALTH” Keeping this motto in mind Institute of
Pharmaceutical Research had organised
a health camp for the students of
Hanumant Prasad Saraswati Balika Vidhya Mandir, Vrindavan. Various routeine
health check up tests like Analysis of Blood group, measurement of B.P., Weight, Height and BMI (Body Mass Inex) were carried out in this camp. 
The Volunteers without their help the purpose of this camp
was not solved were Ms. Hari Priya, Ms. Richa, Mr. Abhishek, Mr. Aman Arora,
Ms. Venu Varshney, Ms. Sunita, Mr. Vijay, Ms. Pooja, Ms. Anjali Solanki, Mr.
Sagar, Mr. Ashish.
