Ongole: The students, who joined Pharm D course with dreams of bright future, are struggling for a job after graduating from colleges. The government, which created much hype when it started the course, washed its hands off now. Unable to bear the burden of fees reimbursement, the government wants to drop Pharm D course for three years, in the name of studying its usefulness and scope.
In 1998, the US Government announced that starting 2003, only those with minimum qualification of Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) could practice pharmacy in USA. The major countries followed the USA and India also introduced Pharm D from 2008.
In western countries, the hospitals appointed Drug Therapeutics Committees to formulate drugs for all diseases and ailments. The committees include doctors, clinical pharmacists and nurses to chart out the standard prescription for every disease they treat in the hospital and how to administer the drugs.