PHARMA PACKAGING DESIGN RESEARCH 

 AN INNOVATIVE FIELD FOR PHARMACY GRADUATES

            

Designing pharmaceutical packaging is more complex, costly and challenging than ever before. Packaging design is an example of collaborations between designers, social and market researchers, and experts in fields like pharmacology, are producing very interesting results. Packaging design today provides stability and shelf life to the drug and the delivery system, which becomes fundamental to the safety, convenience and compliance of drug use. As drug producing sectors upgrade and diversify, packaging market is also witnessing a rapid growth. The key challenges of pharmaceutical packaging are the 5Cs - Counterfeit, Compliance, Communication, Convenience and Cost.

 

Opportunities for Pharmacy Graduates are international and there is a high demand for pharmaceutical packagers who design pharmaceutical packaging for new drugs and dosage forms. Demand for pharmaceutical packaging is increasing and will continue to do so as companies in the highly competitive and rapidly changing pharmaceutical market come to rely more on packaging to protect and promote their products, increase patient compliance, and meet new regulations. Driven by a strong R&D effort, highly specialized demands of pharmaceutical packaging arising from increasing product diversity and new administration forms is coming in front of pharmaceutical packagers. The increasing demand for biologics will boost the demand for innovative product packaging solutions in the global pharma packaging market and drugs going off-patent in the next five years, generic drug manufacturers will emerge as a major segment driving demand for pharma packaging. To conclude, Indian pharma packaging industry has come a long way and is due for more growth. The tremendous rise in health awareness amongst people will continue to create more demand for hygienic, tamper resistant and use-and-throw packaging in the future.

SUNITA

B. Pharm II Year

Institute ofPharmaceutical Research, GLA University, Mathura

YOGESH MURTI

Assistant Professor

Institute ofPharmaceutical Research, GLA University, Mathura

GLA won International Gold Star Millennium award in Thailand

The former Dy. Prime Minister of Thailand Mr. Korn Dabbaransi, bestowed Sh. Narayan Das Agrawal Ji, Chancellor, GLA University, with the ‘International Gold Star Millennium Award' at the international conference on “Indo-Thai Friendship and Economic Cooperation” held at Bangkok in Thailand for his exemplary work in the field of education and for his own personal achievements. This award was honored at the International Conference organized by the Citizen-Integration peace society of New Delhi. The main objective of this conference was to recognize and acknowledge the contribution of Indians in the field of education at the global level. Sh. Vivek Agrawal and Dr. Anoop Kumar Gupta received the award on behalf of Sh.Narayan Das Agrawal ji.

On this achievement Sh. Narayan Das Agrawal ji said that “I am very happy rather excited about the recognition GLA received in this type of forum towards its contribution in the field of quality and world-class education and I am quite sure that we will make our mark at the Global level as well.” In this International conference around 40 Indians were honored for their extra-ordinary contribution in different fields.

A HEALTH CAMP WAS  ORGANIZED BY  INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH 

“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.

This camp was organised  under the guidance of Mr. Jiteendra Kr. Gupta, Mrs. Sonia Sharma,  Ms. Shruti Tandon and Mr. Mukesh Pali.

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.

In the mean time teachers and volunteers  had councel the students about the proper diets and  the preventive  measures against various communicable diseases. In this session supervising committee had  interected with the eleventh and twelth  Standard students seperately

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,2^nd 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

INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL 

RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

MATHURA