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Current Affairs -- Friday, March 26, 2010 -- 09:10CEST
The Malta Chamber of Pharmacists defended the Health Minister’s proposal to allow pharmacists to prescribe certain medicines, describing it as an “innovative and forward-looking stance.”
In a reaction to a statement issued by the Medical Association of Malta – which is against the proposal – it said that it was inconceivable that “our sister profession” would condemn a proposal that Malta follows certain trends which have been long in place and evolving in countries such as the UK and the US.
“The MAM should seek synergies to enhance teamwork rather than propose long exhausted, feeble/non-sequitur arguments on liberalisation of pharmacy licences and prices of medicines,” the chamber said.
It said that the association was offensive in its attempt to “deprecate pharmacists who are independent health care professionals whose prime interest is to ensure the highest quality of patient care.”
“It takes bona fide professionals to change a mentality and move with the times,” the chamber concluded.
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