PHARMACISTS and other health professionals from around the world need to work together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, a South African pharmacist believes.
Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa Professional Development Officer, Dr Mariet Eksteen, told delegates attending an International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) webinar last week, that health professionals needed to collaborate on strategies to get through the crisis.
"Although we are all currently in the same storm, we are not all currently in the same boat," she said.
"We have the same purpose - we all have to get our boat to the other side - but keep in mind it's not your sole responsibility to row the boat.
"We are together [as health professionals] and we can share strategies and together we're going to get all the boats to the other side."
Sharing the view that the "storm" of COVID-19 will pass, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Early Career Pharmacist (ECP) Working Group NSW National Representative, Sarah Dineen-Griffin, told the webinar that pharmacy will come out of pandemic in a strong position.
"You are valued," she said to the pharmacist delegates.
"Coming out of this pandemic people will remember our role as pharmacists."
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