Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar launches 'One Stop-Non-Stop' digital job portal of Pharmacy Council of India

New Delhi: Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar has launched 'One Stop-Non-Stop' digital job portal of Pharmacy Council of India on the inauguration of Pharma Anveshan-2023.

The portal will be useful for pharma professionals as well as recruiters from the industry. This will prove to be a game changer for the students coming from small towns and villages.

The event was organized with a vision of providing a platform for sharing the academic research with industry to exchange the benefits of research outcomes between academia and industry. This can help in exploring commercial purpose based on the academia – industry interlinking.

At the event, PCI also signed Memorandum of Understanding with Karnataka Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Manufacturer’s Association (KDPMA), Life Sciences Sector Skill Development Council, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (LSSSDC), Indian Pharma Alliance (IPA) and Federation of Pharma Entrepreneurs (FOPE) to reduce the gap of industry and academia, strengthen faculty and student training and promote entrepreneurship and infrastructure development.

Reiterating Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s words – “innovation should not only be the goal of our science, but innovation should also drive the scientific process forward”, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawarurged everyone to work on need-based medicine manufacturing and emphasized on the crucial role of Pharmacists in the battle against AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance). She also suggested PCI and pharmacy institutes to create awareness about drugs and its usage, importance of hygiene, community disease prevention, survey and data collection.

Dr Pawar further highlighted that under the visionary leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the Government of India has successfully laid the foundation to tackle the challenges related to the health system of the country. The government of India has prioritized developing its human resources towards developing a resilient, efficient and adaptive healthcare system.

Accentuating on the future healthcare landscape need, Dr Pawar accentuated the pivotal role of pharmacists in the future of healthcare, evolving beyond dispensing medicines and becoming an essential part of your healthcare team. “Patient counselling and maintaining patient medical history can also be our focus area for better utilization of medicines and reducing adverse events. Doing so will help reduce the cost of treatment.”

The MoS emphasized that it is necessary for PCI not only to keep the pace with global changes but also lead research in this area so that Indian pharmacy sector leads the world in innovation. The world trusts India today and this earned trust has garnered India the title of "Pharmacy of the World". She informed that it is important to ensure that the drugs manufactured in the country and consumed by international consumers are of high quality and comply with standard global manufacturing protocols, thereby ensuring that the "world ensure India's reputation as the "Key Pharmacy" and provide high quality pharmaceutical products to consumers.” This can be done by producing better quality generic medicines, medical devices in the country and by increasing Research & Development (R & D), innovation and production capacity.

Dr. Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi, Drug Controller General of India elaborated on the need to promote interdisciplinary research and innovation through industry-academia strengthening. He said that the core of pharma business is quality and India has grown leaps and bounds in last 25 years in this area. He elaborated on the need to create fear free environment and risk-taking environment in order to promote innovation.