Damascus-SANA
Participants in the General Conference of the Syrian Pharmacists Syndicate demanded an increase in the value of the pharmacist's sabbatical compensation, an amendment to the rural service law for new graduates, an increase in the pension, and the strengthening of support for scientific research and development of union work.
The participants in the conference, which was held today at Al-Sham Hotel in Damascus, under the slogan “With hope, we continue to work to build our country and develop the pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical sector,” a number of issues that concern the union and professional side in the various branches of the union in the governorates.
In a speech during the opening of the conference, the Minister of Health, Dr. Hassan Al-Ghubash, highlighted the role of pharmacists in maintaining health security, meeting the needs of citizens for medicine, and continuing to work despite all the challenges imposed on the health sector, as the needs of the local market were secured and the medicine continued to be provided according to good manufacturing standards, stressing the Ministry’s support for industries Pharmaceuticals by exempting production requirements and raw materials from customs duties, taxes and fees, and protecting the local pharmaceutical market for the benefit of local drug producers by not allowing the import of pharmaceutical products that have more than one local factory.
Member of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, Head of the Office of Popular Organizations and Professional Syndicates, Engineer Hoda Al-Homsi, drew attention to the importance of union work, cooperation and integration between the work of a doctor and pharmacist to serve patients and develop the health sector, expressing her hope that the conference will discuss all the details related to developing work and overcoming difficulties through cooperation various stakeholders.
In turn, the head of the Syrian Pharmacists Syndicate, Dr. Wafaa Keshi, indicated that the conference was an opportunity to discuss professional and union issues and the needs of the branches, indicating the role of pharmacists in the medical sector and making efforts to overcome the difficulties imposed by the terrorist war and the unilateral Western coercive measures imposed on Syria, which affected the pharmaceutical industry and imposed difficulties in import and export .
Keshi confirmed the cooperation with the Ministry of Health to secure the needs of the pharmaceutical sector, pointing out that the Syndicate Council submitted a recommendation to the conference to increase the value of the pension from forty thousand Syrian pounds to seventy thousand pounds, starting from the beginning of next year, explaining the union’s support for scientific research and the development of legislation and laws that support union work.
Head of the Pharmacists Syndicate of Damascus Branch, Dr. Alia Al-Assad indicated that the annual conference that brings together pharmacists from different branches contributes to discussing difficulties and finding appropriate solutions to them in coordination with the Ministry of Health, stressing the role of pharmacists in achieving community health.
Dr. Badri Alfa, head of the Hama Pharmacists Syndicate branch, pointed out the necessity of obligating all pharmaceutical factories to replace expired medicines in pharmacies and to address the difficulty of rural service for pharmacists of new graduates due to the large number of pharmacies in the countryside.
Rama Rashidi
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