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FROM PAGE 9 the current mode of operation and an evaluation of how much time is spent with an individual patient can address the way forward, to maximise the use of our restricted resources and to make an impact at the budgetary level of an institution as well as the patient level. Countries that utilised the intervention of pharmacists were able to get better medication management by reducing prescription errors and save on overall healthcare costs.

Modernising our healthcare systems by computerizing patient records and fixing the gaps will not only allow departmental and institutional connectivity to trace patient history but will address duplication, polypharmacy, especially in the elderly with chronic illness and ultimately eliminate wastage.

Medication management demands spending time to educate and explain new lifestyle modifications and lobbying for more costeffective drugs. There must be a statutory structure to systematically rationalise drugs having acquired empirical evidence to justify the recommendations.

For further discussion, contact the pharmacist of Medicine Express PHARMACY located at 223 Camp Street, between Lamaha and New Market Streets. If you have any queries, comments or further information on the above topic kindly forward them to medicine. express@gmail.com or send them to 223 Camp Street, N/ burg. Tel #225-5142.