World Pharmacists Day

Today millions of pharmacists worldwide will celebrate World Pharmacists Day, this year themed “safe and effective medicines for all.”

The annual day is used to highlight the value of the pharmacy profession to stakeholders and to celebrate pharmacy globally. It was originally adopted in 2009 at the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The theme for 2019 aims to promote pharmacists’ crucial role in safeguarding patient safety through improving medicines use and reducing medication errors.

“Pharmacists use their broad knowledge and unique expertise to ensure that people get the best from their medicines. We ensure access to medicines and their appropriate use, improve adherence, coordinate care transitions and so much more. Today, more than ever, pharmacists are charged with the responsibility to ensure that when a patient uses a medicine, it will not cause harm”, says International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) President Dominique Jordan.

Watch Dominique Jordan's video

Source: FIP, 25 September 2019