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Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Health) Hawazi Daipi, as the profession seeks to grow and attract more pharmacists. -- ST FILE PHOTO
WITH a ratio of one pharmacist to 3,000 people, Singapore is far off the developed world's standard of one to 500.
The shortage has driven the Singapore Pharmacy Council (SPC) to try to bump up its numbers. It will recruit more pharmacists by expanding its list of recognised foreign qualifications and allowing fresh graduates from overseas to carry out their pre-registration training, the pharmacist's equivalent of medical housemanship, here.
SPC's target for a start: One to 2,650 over the next five years.
In the last 10 years, pharmacists have progressed from dispensing medicine to being involved in drug development, formulating innovative drug delivery systems, writing safety regulations, and influencing the cost-effective and optimal use of medicine to achieve good patient outcomes, said Mr Hawazi Daipi, the Senior Parliamentary Secretary for both the Manpower and Health ministries, yesterday.
He was the guest of honour at the pledge affirmation ceremony for pharmacists, held at the College of Medicine.
The SPC projects that the country will need 200 pharmacists yearly over five years to add to the 1,700 here.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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