Paradigm Shift in Practice: The Role of Pharmacists in COVID-19 Management

Samira Saghir,Madiha Rizvi,Furqan K Hashmi,Sitaram Khadka

doi:10.46405/ejms.v2i2.93

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Abstract

The continuously escalating burden of COVID-19 pandemic is challenging the health care systems around the world. The healthcare professionals of different specialties throughout the globe are working day and night for its proper mitigation. Pharmacists are healthcare professionals who are working on the frontline for the management of COVID-19 in different settings. In this review, we highlight the potential roles pharmacists can play for effective management of COVID-19. The collaborative effort of all professionals, including healthcare and other stakeholders is necessary for the appropriate management of such pandemic. Pharmacists, having expertise in clinical as well as administrative aspects, can play a pivotal role in extended health services (EHS) from prevention to eradication of COVID-19. Firm determination, inter- and intra- professional collaboration, and legislative support are mandatory for the rational practice of professionalism in such disasters.

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COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that has affected more than seven million people in different parts of the world and has taken a death toll over four hundred thousand to date.[1]
From either community level or big clinical setting; pharmacists can help in COVID-19 management taking part in preparedness and mitigation to response and recovery stages.[2,3]
In the context of emergency preparedness of a large scale COVID-19 pandemic, the objective of the current review is to provide a panorama of services that pharmacists can render such as extended health services (EHS) for crisis management as a healthcare professional

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COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that has affected more than seven million people in different parts of the world and has taken a death toll over four hundred thousand to date.[1] All the healthcare workers are working day and night to make the world free of COVID-19. In this regard, the pharmacists, being a healthcare practitioner, can contribute to the management based on the dynamic approaches of clinical as well as managerial tasks within the scope of their expertise.

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