Why Need Pharmacy
Pharmacists are highly potential job today and vital role in the community. Without a pharmacist medication affairs will be disrupted and can be fatal.
Today, the widespread community work as a pharmacist is often under-emphasized. The point is that many people underestimate and do not have the slightest interest of Pharmacy. Because of their presumption, pharmacists only someone who works for dispensing drugs and do not have a position / high degree and do not have a field or land a great job. In fact, often the pharmacist and pharmacist is just a shadow of the doctors.
Minister of Health we are all doctors and no one pharmacist or pharmacists who became important with the high office dikementrian health. Even many doctors who ignore pharmacists in hospital with mengobatin and directly deliver drugs without consultation with a pharmacist. It is also due to still not maximal role of pharmacists as a seven stars pharmacist.
Supposedly, a pharmacist is a mediator between doctors and patients in terms of drug delivery. Patients can even consult with a pharmacist in a hospital / pharmacy which he attended. However, there is still a lack of information on the subject is very influential on the job pharmacist / pharmacist.
However, the reality of work in the field of pharmacy is very broad. Pharmacists are not only responsible for the pharmacy or pharmacist does not only work for dispensing drugs.
In addition to working at the hospital, according to Regulation 51, Pharmaceutical Works is the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations including quality control, security, procurement, storage and distributor or penyaluranan drug, medication management, on a prescription drug services, drug information services, as well as drug development, materials medicine and traditional medicine.
A pharmacist can also work in the field of R & D (Research and Development), which is doing research on drug or drug ingredients that can be used as an alternative new drugs in the world. For example, cancer drugs, etc.
Public opinion that the pharmacist can not work dipemerintahan was wrong, a pharmacist can head POM which of course belongs to the government.
At this time the number of pharmacists and pharmacists in Indonesia is very minimal. Recorded in Indonesia has a ratio of 1 to 8000. This means that one pharmacist handle 8000 patients this figure is the largest among other ASEAN countries with raio 4000 till 5000 only.
In every hospital, every 4 room should have one pharmacist but in Indonesia setap 30 rooms only have one pharmacist. It is ironic to know the population of Indonesia are very much but health workers in the field of Pharmacy which is vital for a country minimal amount.
Shortage of pharmacists not only experienced by Indonesia in the world is the same, even in 2025 predicted the US would pharmacist shortage of approximately 15,000. This is a very sad thing, because society needs to care for drugs would be hampered by the small number of pharmacists.
Lack of Pharmacists in Indonesia, resulting in a lot of fraudulent practices. According PP51, An APA (Pharmacy Pharmacist business) should only be able to hold one pharmacy. However, a shortage of pharmacists and weak supervision lead to one pharmacist can hold 2 to 3 pharmacies. Of course, with this kind of fraud make credibility is questionable and doubtful pharmacists.
Even this deficiency, causing a lack of supervision of drugs and food into Indonesia. Impact is a lot of food and drugs with dangerous or prohibited content can enter and circulate Indonesian market. This is very dangerous.
Knowing this, our government did not say anything. The government wants to increase the number of pharmacists in Indonesia. Therefore, the government gives notice through advertisement, to promote the importance of pharmacists in Indonesia. One of them by providing information and a brief knowledge of pharmacy through advertising.
Even the government provides many scholarships especially in the field of pharmacy to realize the vision and mission of public welfare in the field of health, especially drugs. With such an understanding of the wrong pharmaceutical certainly justifiable.
Pharmacy education in Indonesia is getting a lot. Travel time to be in the field of Pharmacy S1 is about 4 years old, and can continue to field a pharmacist for 1 year.
The pharmacy student, studying everything related to the drug. Studying material for medicine, how the medicine, even how to make drugs and much more.
In the pharmacy itself, is divided into two areas of specialization, there are clinical pharmacy, which will be lead to the hospital pharmacy. And there are also pharmaceutical technology, which is leading to the drug industry. Most students, taking pharmaceutical technology in the hope of having a larger salary of clinical pharmacy. In fact it is not like that, it all depends on the ability of each of us.
Pharmacist program itself is a professional program that can be taken after graduation S1 Pharmacy. Education applied for about 1 year and coupled with the street vendors.
Pharmacy clearly has a higher position than S1 pharmacists. A pharmacist, can be APA (Pharmacy Pharmacist business) and have an official letter from the Ministry of Health Permit.
As the development of the era, many curriculum also increases and decreases. Currently, the courses are fairly new and a lot of attention is on the Pharmaceutical Care.
Pharmacy Care essentially learn how we as an expert in the field of pharmaceuticals to treat drug to the patient so that the patient can be improved kulaitas or ability to heal with drugs and services provided. This is one of the keys of the application of seven stars pharmacist ++.
With the existence of this course, the pharmacist greatly helped so that the parts are often taken by a physician can be mastered completely. And pharmacist services can be better, because the pharmaceutical care is the pharmacist asked to be a good mediator between doctor and patient.
Benefits of becoming a pharmacist compared pharmacist is a pharmacist has a broader employment, therefore many pharmaceutical S1 graduates who immediately took a pharmacist program.
Besides the advantages alone pharmacists today is the drug is an important requirement of the people throughout the world, and the pharmacist is an important element that is useful to balance the needs of the availability of the drug. It can not be fulfilled, because the number of pharmacists is very minimal, which turned out to be another advantage of someone becoming a pharmacist.
Other keutungan is currently pharmacies mushrooming everywhere and in very diverse forms according kebuthan patients. And also the technology that has been growing very rapidly so easy for pharmacists to conduct research to find new drugs that can cure a rare disease, or in even aids.
A pharmacist, according to research in United ranks to 9 as the highest paying job, but of course, along with the high salary of a pharmacist risks or responsibilities required is enormous.
The point is the profession as an expert in the field of pharmacy (especially pharmacist) is very profitable, promising and also mass spectrometer very bright future. We can be successful not only financially even socially. Because we as physicians, which helps people find healing. Communities need support for our progress in Indonesia's Pharmacy. In order to achieve our goals, welfare of the people.