Challenges Faced by Hospital Pharmacists in Low-Income Countries Before COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out: Handling Approaches and Implications for Future Pandemic Roles
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Shrestha, Sunil
Sapkota, Binaya
Khanal, Saval
Kc, Bhuvan
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Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is one of the greatest pandemics of modern times. More than one hundred eleven million global deaths have already been associated with COVID-19. The incidence of COVID-19 as well as morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 have increased in low-income countries (LICs). COVID-19 has further weakened health systems in LICs, that are already distressed by inadequate funding, lack of human resources, and poor infrastructure and service delivery. Despite the resource crunch, hospital LICs have been instrumental in treating COVID-19 patients. Pharmacists working in hospitals play an indispensable role in providing pharmaceutical services for infection prevention and control. This study discusses the contribution of hospital pharmacists and the challenges faced by them for treating COVID-19 patients in LICs before the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.
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Turkish Journal Of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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19
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2
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© The Author(s) 2022. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
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Pharmacology & Pharmacy
COVID-19
hospital pharmacy
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Shrestha, R; Shrestha, S; Sapkota, B; Khanal, S; Kc, B, Challenges Faced by Hospital Pharmacists in Low-Income Countries Before COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out: Handling Approaches and Implications for Future Pandemic Roles, Turkish Journal Of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022, 19 (2), pp. 232-238