Around 500-1000 Private Pharmacies That Running Throughout The Island Are Not Having A Single Pharmacist-Sri Lanka Pharmaceutical Trade Forum

Around 3500 Private Pharmacies Are currently functioning throughout the island  and out of them around 500- 1000 Pharmacies are running without a  single Pharmacist according to Sri Lanka Pharmaceutical Trade Forum.

Addressing  a Press Briefing held yesterday(21) at Sri Lanka Press Institute in Narahenpita(In Colombo District) the office bearers of the Forum has stated Government should have taken steps to  recruit qualified Pharmacists for these Private Pharmacies running without a single pharmacist in view of providing  a good service for Patients.

The Office Bearers of the Pharmaceutical Trade Forum has appealed their members not to accept Drugs which are having a shell life less then Two Years .How Ever under the new National Drug Regulatory Authority Act there's a provision stating Pharmacists can accept Drugs having shell life of around one and half years.