The council which regulates the pharmacy practices in Pakistan is called as Pharmacy council Pakistan. Pharmacy Council of Pakistan is a centralized institute. It has two main role first of all to regulate the pharmacy education in the Pakistan and secondly done the registration of the qualified pharmacists from the institutes which are approved by the pharmacy council. The council was coming into existence after the act of 1967 which is also called as the pharmacy council act. It is an independent authority, the chairman of his council is appointed by the prime minister of Pakistan in consultation with the pharmacist association of Pakistan and drug controller.
The duration of the tenor of the chairman is on the 3 year. There is also vice president of the pharmacy council of Pakistan whose job tenure is about 1 year. He works for the assistance of the chairman or president of the council and act as acting president when the actual one is not present. One member can re elect several times as there is not a limitation of its reelection. It constitutes on the eight members and out of these eight members four comes from the four different provinces and there is a restriction on to become a member and that is he should be a teacher of the pharmaceutical chemistry. The council has given approval to 12 public institutes and nine private institutes whose candidate can register with the council as these institutes are approved by the pharmacy council.
Pharmacy Council has worked hard to increase the pharmacy standards and number of pharmacists in Pakistan. If we compare it with the past we see that at the time of independence Pakistan imports medicines but due to the efforts of the council the Pakistan has started to export the medicine to the other countries as well.
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