Campus News

N.S.S. Camp At Handewadi-Autadewadi

A National Service Scheme special camp was organized by JSPM’s Jayawantrao Sawant College of Pharmacy & Research, Hadapsar, pune at handewadi-autadewadi village.

National Pharmacy Week

National pharmacy week 2007 was celebrated in JSPM’s Jayawantrao Sawant College of Pharmacy & Research, Hadapsar, pune with a great zeal. The theme this programme was “Self medication: Ask you pharmacist”. The programme commenced with a health rally of B.Pharm students & staff members in hadapsar area.

16th February 2008

The Pharmaceutical Care is an important health care intervention which is mandatory for quality use of medicine. The Patients are supposed to get all the practical information regarding the drugs they are prescribed by doctors.

The community pharmacist is the globally accepted professional to cater the pharmaceutical care to the patients at the time of dispensing the medicine it self. The World Health Organization in collaboration with Federation International Pharmacy has come out with a model to provide the pharmaceutical care. In this patients are advised regarding how to store and use medicines. They are also supposed to advice regarding Life style factors and disease specific factors. This will correct the wrong practices in medicine usage and make the patient a partner in his improvement of health.

Visaapatnam, India, Feb 25th,2008:

A function to mark the beginning of the celebrations done in connection with the Annual Day 2007-2008 of Andhra University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AUCOPS),Vizag,AP,India was held today in the gallery of the College. The function was organized by the III B.Pharm students and was attended by all the staff.

The celebrations were inaugurated by the Principal, AUCOPS, Prof. K.P.R. Chowadary and the Head of the Department, Prof. S.Satyanarayana. They inaugurated the celebrations by lighting a lamp. Prof. T. Satyanarayana, Member,Pharmacy Council of India and Prof. J.Vijaya Ratna also participated in lighting the traditional lamp.

Today Feb 5th, 2008 in the college premises about two hundred M. Pharm. and B. Pharm. students participated in poster, model presentation based on social awareness topics like No smoking, blood donation, AIDS, drug abuses, Hepatitis, alcohol addiction.

The Chief Guest, Sardar S. S. Longia, Retd. Deputy Director inaugurated Poster and Model competition. Mr. Longia appreciates the working of college. Mr.Longia lectured the students about the evils of society and how will pharmacist plays a important role.

The best poster and model presentation have been evaluated by subject experts.

Amar Shaheed Baba Ajit Singh Meorial College of Pharmacy, Bela (Ropar) organized “Pharma rally” on 02.02.08 under the activity of ABHIVYAKTI The Pharm Fest –2008 in colabration IN PHARM ASSOCIATION.

A rally on “Society awareness program – Know Your Pharmacist and Right use of medicine” was organized by the pharmacy club of A.S.B.A.S.J.S.M. College of Pharmacy, Bela (Ropar) on 02 February, 2008.

Sardar Sangat Singh Longia, Secretary and Dr. Rakesh Gupta, CMHO, Chamkaur Sahib, Chastarted the rally from Central Stadium, Chamkaur sahib which was concluded by Principle Dr. G.D. Gupta, Professor & Head College of Pharmacy, Bela, Ropar at Gurudwara Katalgarh Sahib.

Bela, Amar Shaheed Baba Ajit Singh Meorial College of Pharmacy, Bela (Ropar) organized “Blood Donation Camp” on 04.02.08 under the activity of Pharm Fest –2008 in colabration State Bank of Patilla and Blood Donor Council, Murinda. The camp received good response and about 100 students, staff and general public donated their blood.

A team of doctors from PGI Chandigarh collected the blood from the volunteers after due screening and general medical check up. Shri C. S. Kang, Deputy general Manager of SBOP inagurated the camp. He said the blood donation is valuable donation which helps the needy ailing patients.

3rd Workshops & Training On “Advance Techniques of Molecular Biology” February 8-10, 2008

Prof. SNT Memorial Foundation is organizing a workshop on “Advance Techniques of Molecular Biology” on February 8-10, 2008, with an objective to give training under graduates, post gradates and scientists who are interested in using this techniques for drug development and research. The detail is enclosed herewith. All the interested persons are requested to register themselves at the earliest.

You may also visit www.sntmf.org for details.

The 5^th Pharma-IndoChina Conference with the theme “Pharmacy for Sustainable Development.” was held during November, 21-24, 2007, organized by Mahidol University.

Under the theme of “Pharmacy for Sustainable Development” the conference focused on recent advances in all disciplines of Pharmaceutical Sciences, where oral and poster presentations were delivered by participants of the different parts of world. Furthermore a section designated as Young Scientists Forum has added encouragement to undergraduate/graduate students to present their work in an international environment.

Dec 29th, 2006, Varanasi, U.P., INDIA:

The 59th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress was held at Department of Pharmaceutics, BHU (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi from 20th to 23th December 2007 with an aim to disseminate knowledge and facilitate exchange of new ideas among the members of Pharmacy Profession.

Inauguration of the 59th IPC was done on 20th December at 4.30pm. Dr. John L. LaMattina senior vice president, Pfizer Inc and President, Pfizer Global Research and Development was the guest of honour.