KARACHI:
A free service of briefing patients about the medicines that they are prescribed has been initiated by the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD) of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation.
Administrator Rauf Akhtar Farooqui directed the drug and poison information centre to start providing information about the prescribed medicines to the patients who visit the out-patient department at the KIHD. Trained pharmacists working in consultation with the doctors brief the patients in detail about the prescribed medicines and also tell them how to use the medicines.
In cases when the medicines are expensive and a patient cannot buy them, the pharmacists prescribe an alternative medicine that is affordable for the patient.
A monthly follow-up call is also part of this service, in which a pharmacist inquires upon the patient’s health. This service is soon going to start at Abbasi Shaheed hospital.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 5th, 2014.
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