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Received date : 03-06-2021 Revised date : 25-06-2021 Accepted date : 28-06-2021 Published date : 30-06-2021

Mediterr J Pharm Pharm Sci 1 (2): 51-57, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5171346

Original Research


Evaluating the effect of COVID-19 on community pharmacist’s practice

Muhammed Mansour, Safa Alsaadawi, Ayat Benjaber, Nada Ben Issa and Mohamed Abdulsamad


Abstract

Pharmacists stand alongside with other professionals in representing essential healthcare during health emergencies such as COVID-19 pandemic. The present study seeks to explore the behavior and attitude of community pharmacists across various pharmacies throughout this pandemic towards the safety of workplace environment for staff and patients. An online questionnaire has been prepared and distributed to 145 community pharmacies during March to May, 2020. The collected results and data showed that community pharmacists in Libya have a good knowledge and adherence to preventive and protective measures published by FIP, WHO and other health-related organizations to protect themselves and society from infection. The pharmacist role in educating and information provision of the current disease and its management is still going on regardless the pandemic. A negative evaluation to the government support during the pandemic is clear from participant's replies. In Conclusion, this study looks forward to disclosing the current activities undertaken across various community pharmacy settings concerning safety of the workplace environment for both staff and patients. A clear and relatively realistic picture of the extent of commitment and knowledge of pharmacists of the necessary aspects needed to deal with this pandemic within community pharmacies is suggested. The extent of community pharmacist's knowledge, readiness and speed of their response to such a pandemic have been identified.
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