The University of Agriculture Faisalabad on Wednesday took out a rally to mark World Pharmacist Day.

The rally arranged by Department of Pharmacy UAF was led by Acting Dean Faculty of Veterinary Sciences UAF Dr Tariq Javed while Pharmacy Department Incharge Dr Farooq Azam and a large number of faculty and staff participated. This year is aimed at promoting pharmacists’ crucial role in safeguarding patient safety through improving medicines use and reducing medication errors. Safe and effective medicines for all” is the theme of this year’s day. Addressing on the occasion, Dr Tariq Javed said that pharmacists were charged with responsibility to safeguard the heath of the people. He said that in our society, the usage of medicine without doctor prescription has become normal, which is causing hazardous effects on the lives of people. He said that the people must be educated to avoid self-medicine. He said that during the self-medicine, beside others effects, the people uses the heavy dozes which reduce immunity level. Dr Farooq Azam stressed upon the need to move towards the Nano medicine which was getting popularity across the globe. He said that nanomedicine had the potential to significantly improve some current treatments. He said that nanomedicine research deals with improved cell material interactions, development of diagnostics for rapid monitoring, drug delivery, targeted cancer therapies, and gene delivery systems.