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Pharmacy Council of Guyana Clarifies What?
Dear Editor;
I refer to a letter by the Pharmacy council captioned, Pharmacy Council clarifies.” I am a prospective graduate of the Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy, University of Guyana. The Pharmacy Council of Guyana has responded to a letter written by a pharmacy graduate in the June, 28th Edition of this Newspaper. The recent back and forth between the Pharmacy Council of Guyana and the recently graduated pharmacy students is great cause for concern.
As a soon to be graduated pharmacist, not even sure if I should call myself that; I was of the opinion that the Pharmacy Council was like a parent body that represented its members and keep their best interest at heart. The mere fact that it even took the council this long to respond to a letter dated April 24th, 2016 (more than two months) goes to show the level of negligence on the part of the Pharmacy Council.
It seemed that what the Chairman aimed to do was to make the previous writer appear uninformed and to basically clear the name of the Council. In a contrasting look at the two letters, it does not seem like the issue of the graduated “pharmacist” was about laws but rather the Council’s disregard as it relates to dispatching relevant information. They made no effort to inform the graduates of the situation.
In addition to that the Chairman claimed they met with the 2014 batch to discuss the way forward. What he failed to mention was that although this batch falls within the same ambits of the Internship regulation they were still granted licenses, after the very internship programme they are pushing for failed to materialize. The writer was from the 2015 batch and nothing was done for them. What will be done for us?
Also I don’t recall the student saying that the Pharmacy Council is in charge of earnings but stated that without a license ($56,000) was the average salary. Now more than six months have passed since the 2015 batch has graduated and still to date the internship programme has not initiated. What does Mr. Carl Bacchus have to say about this? Why hasn’t the Council offered the same temporary fix to the 2015 batch that they offered the 2014 batch? Could it be victimization because someone spoke out? Please Mr. Carl A. Bacchus, Chairman, Pharmacy Council of Guyana, clarify this. As a prospective graduate I wonder, is my faith the same?
Concerned Graduand
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