Moonlighting pharmacists<\/p>\n
According to an article published in The Jakarta Post on April
\n17, 2000, under the title Moonlighting pharmacists neglect
\npublic's rights, a survey conducted by University of Indonesia
\nstudents revealed that in only 5 percent of drugstores surveyed
\nwere pharmacists available to serve customers. In the other 95
\npercent, the pharmacists were not available because they are
\ncivil servants or members of the military or the police.<\/p>\n
To replace these moonlighting pharmacists, some 800 full-time
\npharmacists will be needed. This is unlikely considering that new
\ngraduates from pharmacy schools are not allowed to manage
\ndrugstores in Jakarta before completing a three-year compulsory
\nservice program. The law on this compulsory service was passed
\nhalf a century ago, but in practice it is applied only to medical
\npractitioners, dentists and pharmacists. It is never applied to
\nuniversity graduates in other fields.<\/p>\n
Several years ago, some 1,800 pharmacists were waiting to be
\nplaced for their compulsory service by the health ministry. As a
\nresult, the implementation of this law has been relaxed in the
\nsense that new pharmacy graduates are allowed to work anywhere
\nwith the exception of managing drugstores in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
In early 1999, the Association of Pancasila University
\nPharmacy Alumni in Jakarta filed an application with the health
\nminister to the effect that new pharmacy graduates should be
\nallowed to manage drugstores in Jakarta. If this appeal was
\ngranted, the need for 800 full-time pharmacists could be met by
\nrecruiting pharmacists graduating from the Bandung Institute of
\nTechnology and Padjajaran University in Bandung, Gajah Mada
\nUniversity in Yogyakarta, Airlangga University in Surabaya and
\nPancasila University, the University of Indonesia and August 17
\nUniversity in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Allow me, therefore, to propose that new pharmacists work in
\ndrugstores during the day and that pharmacists belonging to the
\ncivil service, the military and the police continue to work in
\ndrugstores in the evening. In this way, drugstores can serve the
\ncommunity professionally.<\/p>\n
SUNARTO PRAWIROSUJANTO<\/p>\n
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