Abstract

A community pharmacy is a place where medicines are stored and dispensed. Pharmaceutical care is the responsible provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life”. In the pharmaceutical care concept, pharmacists should engage in the systematic, comprehensive process whereby they are able to accomplish three primary functions: identifying potential and actual drug related problems, resolving actual drug related problems and preventing potential drug related problems. The main objective of this study was to provide health screening services like measurement of Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index, and Blood Glucose Level and to train & make community pharmacist able to provide pharmaceutical care services and to design and prepare the Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) for chronic disease management. A total of 210 patients were enrolled in which 95 patients with hypertension, 68 patients with Diabetes and 47 patients with Asthma were undertaken to study the SBP/DBP, Family and medical history. A questionnaire was designed for community pharmacists. Mean values of scores were found to be 2.08±1.08, 2.17±1.03, 2.50±0.90, 2.58±1.37, 2.17±0.94 respectively. This study showed that the community pharmacist can support improved patient outcomes through the development of more clinical role.