These are the results of the Executive Council elections held at the 2014 AGM yesterday, Friday 19th December 2014.   Total number of valid votes cast: 277 & 1 invalid vote (TOTAL 278)   Palmier Alfie: 123 votes Sant Fournier Mary Ann: 154 votes - ELECTED PRESIDENT   Total number of valid votes cast: 276 & 2 invalid votes (TOTAL 278)   The 15 candidates received the following votes:   Bonnici Marisabelle: 132 votes - ELECTED MEMBER Borg Millo Max: 152 votes - ELECTED MEMBER Calleja (Shaw) Claire: 147 votes - ELECTED MEMBER Ciappara Mary Anne: 135 votes - ELECTED MEMBER Cutajar Marvic...

The Malta Chamber of Pharmacists in collaboration with the Maltese Diabetes Association and Malta Pharmaceutical Students Association will be running a health awareness campaign on the occassion of World Diabetes Day (WDD) which is celebrated on the 14th November. The campaign will run from different community pharmacies in Malta and Gozo who have volunteered to participate. The campaign will run from the 14-30 November. Below is more useful information you need to read to know what is your diabetes risk and whether you should take the test. The proceeds will be donated to CARITAS MALTA. ...

Posters updated:     As a precautionary measure to limit possible exposure to affected areas with Ebola, the Public Health Authorities recommend the general public to avoid nonessential travel to the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the Equator Province in Democratic Republic of Congo. If travel to these countries is unavoidable, the following advice is recommended: § Avoid direct contact with blood or bodily fluids of a patient or a corpse and with objects possibly contaminated, § Avoid close contact with wild animals and cons...

As a precautionary measure to limit possible exposure to affected areas with Ebola, the Public Health Authorities recommend the general public to avoid nonessential travel to the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. If travel to these countries is unavoidable, the following advice is recommended: § Avoid direct contact with blood or bodily fluids of a patient or a corpse and with objects possibly contaminated, § Avoid close contact with wild animals and consumption of ‘bush meat’, § Avoid having unprotected sexual intercourse, § Practice careful...

The Malta Chamber of Pharmacists is collaborating with the Infectious Diseases Control Unit of the Public Health Department within the Ministry for Energy & Health to organize a meeting for pharmacists on the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus.  The date has been set for the 26th August so far however it will only be confirmed once all the speakers send in their confirmation.  Meeting will be held at 7.30pm. This notice will be updated in due course. In the meantime the Public Health Department with our support urges all pharmacists to print out the attached posters on normal paper and ...

A productive meeting was held between the Chamber of Pharmacists, the GRTU Healthcare Division, the Ministry and Parliamentary Secretariat responsible for Health. All parties are committed to the Pharmacy of your Choice initiative and its evolution. The Chamber of Pharmacists and GRTU stated clearly that they have never claimed that there was political discrimination in the POYC system. Moreover further to the joint meeting, the Chamber of Pharmacists and GRTU were assured that the POYC is not being subjected to political discrimination in its operations. The Chamber and the GRTU have surv...

The Malta Chamber of Pharmacists refers to the recent reports in the printed and broadcasting media on preferential treatment of patients vis a vis the distribution of medicines under the POYC scheme and more recently, the bizarre situation whereby it has been reported that POYC medicines are being distibuted through village club/s (kazini). If this is the case then the distribution of medicines has become politicized to unbelievable proportions. The Chamber is the national pharmacy association and trade union and it is apolitical. But the Chamber does represent its members who are pharmacis...

PRESS RELEASE - FOR URGENT RELEASE The Malta Chamber of Pharmacists refers you to today's published article on maltarightnow news portal by Kenneth Xuereb (re OOS Medicines in POYC, preferential treatment and undue pressure on the pharmacist) and categorically denies the version of facts given by the author.  PRO, Claire Calleja told the journalist yesterday in a phone call "such instances of preferential treatment for dispensing medications have been addressed in the past by this Chamber. This started to happen towards the end of the last legislature and continues to happen. Of course a...

PRESS RELEASE   In the light that today, Friday January 17th 2014, was the closing date for public consultation and with stakeholders on the White Paper - Ministry For Health, 4 November 2013: Ensuring Your Right to Entitlement Medicines at the Time You Require Them, we are pleased to inform you that the Joint Committee of the Malta Chamber of Pharmacists and the GRTU – Pharmacy Section has submitted it’s position to the Hon Minister of Health, Dr Godfrey Farrugia on the 27th of December 2013, entitled: The Right Medicine At The Right Time, At An Affordable Price, By The Pharmacist Of The ...

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