Community Pharmacy is defined as a place where the drugs are grazed and allocated to the cases on a valid tradition and where fairly permitted without a tradition and also offer colorful professional services that improves the health of the case.
• World Health Organisation (W.H.O) defines Community Pharmacist as fairly good, trained health care professional who act as a vital link between the case and the prescriber. The druggist ensures the correct force of drugs and provides drug operation information both to cases and prescribers and helps in minimizing the medicine related problems through clinical drugstore services.
A community druggist should
(i) Have a sound background of pharmaceutical care, pharmacotherapy, and health creation.
( ii) Have good communication chops with cases and other healthcare providers.
(iii) Maintain a high degree of standard in products, services, and communication.
(iv) Record and maintain his documents in order.
The types of community apothecaries Include
• Independent Community Pharmacy It’s possessed by an individual (as personal enterprises) or group of individualities ( enterprises or companies).
• Chain Community Pharmacy It’s a commercial association with multiple outlets groups.
• Sanitarium- grounded Community Pharmacy It’s either the sanitarium or a society formed by the sanitarium that operates the drugstore In the sanitarium offering drugs at abatements.