Last Updated on December 31, 2023 by The Health Master
The Telangana state government has decided to fill vacant posts of 442 pharmacists, 18 drug inspectors and 15 junior analysts’ posts in healthcare, drug control and other related departments in the state.
To this effect, the state finance ministry has sanctioned its approval for all the posts and is soon going to release a formal notification allowing the qualified professionals to apply for the posts.
Expressing his happiness, Sanjay Reddy, president of Pharmacists Association Telangana (PAT) and member of Pharmacy Council of Telangana said that their requests and petitions to the government to release the government pharmacists and drug inspectors posts has finally been realized and thanked the chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for sanctioning the pharmacists and drug inspector posts in the state.
“There are thousands of vacant posts of pharmacists in various government hospitals, medical colleges and other diagnostic laboratories and related government institutions in the state. Though we expected more posts for the pharmacists, however we thank the chief minister for sanctioning 442 pharmacists posts.
However we were expecting more drug inspector posts as there are only 70-78 drug inspectors against the actual requirement of over 350 drug inspector posts in the state.
We are hoping the government will release more posts of pharmacists and drug inspectors in the subsequent phases,” observed Reddy.
As per the government statement, the finance department has cleared 119 posts of lab technicians and 160 posts of pharmacist under group-2 category totaling to 357 posts, under drug control department the government has sanctioned 18 posts of drug inspectors, 9 posts of Junior analysts, another 4 posts of local junior assistants and 2 state level posts of junior assistants.
All these posts needs for the applying candidates to have degree of pharmacists, or bachelors degree in sciences as mandatory qualification.
Overall the drug control department in the state will fill 33 posts, while 357 posts will be filled under the healthcare department totaling it to be 442 posts in all in the state.
The (PAT) president felt that the government should also bring in strict regulatory rules and implement the pharmacy act strictly, so that all the pharmacy stores and medical shops in the state should also fill up the posts of qualified pharmacists in place of unqualified persons who are dispensing medicines in private medical shops.
He also wished that the government to fill the posts of local healthcare workers in villages with qualified pharmacists, who will be serving effectively in collecting the healthcare profile of the people and at the same time dispense medicines in place of ANMs who are not having formal qualifications mandated by the medical regulations and pharmacy act.
G Koteshwar Rao, President Indian Pharmacy Graduates Association, Telangana also welcomed Telangana government for the step to fulfill the posts of drugs inspectors, Pharmacists and junior analysts.
He said that functioning of drug regulatory and health system of the state will be smooth after fulfilling the said posts.
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