Importance of Pharmacy

Pharmacies play a key role in supporting public health, particularly providing access to medicines and other essential items before, during, and following a crisis.
They also increasingly provide preventive and emergency care, such as immunizations, contraception, and the opioid overdose antidote naloxone.

Pharmacists are responsible for the quality of medicines supplied to patients, ensuring that the supply of medicines is within the law, and that the medicines prescribed to patients are suitable. They also advise patients about medicines, including how to take them, what reactions may occur, and answer patients’ questions.

Pharmacists improve medication adherence and play a key role in helping patients feel better and get well as quickly as possible.