To verify all patient information before filling a
prescription.
• To check prescriptions for correct dosage and for drug
interactions and incompatibilities.
• Monitoring the near expiry/expired items and arranging
the medicines according to their expiry dates (as first
expire first out).
• Following insurance companies’ policies and
procedures.
• To dispense, package and label the prescribed
medicines.
• Storing and preservation of vaccines, serums and other
drugs subject to deterioration.
• To record prescriptions dispensed, and the issue of
poisons, narcotics and other restricted drug
• To provide advice and information on the use and effects
of medications to the patients.

Liaising with physicians, nurses and other fellow health care
professionals to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and
economic drug treatment;
 Counseling patients on the effects, dosage and route of
administration of their drug treatments, particularly those
who require complex drug therapy & for chronic medications;
 Communicating effectively with patient’s & their relatives,
community pharmacists, general practitioners (GPs), etc.;
 Monitoring every stage of medication therapy to improve all
aspects of delivery and reporting patient side effects;
 Ensuring medicinal products are stored appropriately and
securely to ensure freshness;
 Ensuring medication reaches the patient in the correct form
and dose - this may include tablets, capsules, ointments,
injections, inhalers and creams;
 Being responsible for the accurate dispensing and timely
distribution of medicines to the patien

Work & Duties
• To verify all patient information before filling a
prescription.
• To check prescriptions for correct dosage and for drug
interactions and incompatibilities.
• To dispense, package and label the prescribed
medicines.
• Storing and preservation of vaccines, serums and other
drugs subject to deterioration.
• Dispensing of medical and surgical products as
prescribed.
• To record prescriptions dispensed, and the issue of
poisons, narcotics and other restricted drugs.
• To provide advice and information on the use and effects
of medications to the patients.
• To sell non-prescription drugs, toiletries, cosmetics and
related commercial products.