Antonio Guiteras Holmes, pharmacist graduated from the University of Havana. On the ocassion of this outstanding popular fighter's birthday (November 22) we celebrate the National Pharmacist's Day every year. We interviewed Anamays Rodríguez Figueroa, principal specialist and technical director at La Real Pharmacy.
A pharmacist is…
The pharmacist is not a simple health worker, on the contrary she or he complements the medical service. The pharmacist must demonstrate sensitivity, humanism and ethics.
The pharmacist priorities are…
We are part of the National Health Program, so we develop preventive and health activities and offer information to ensure that people do not use medicines without consultating a doctor.
Health promotion activities in the community…
We visit schools and workplaces, give lectures on hygienic sanitary measures with the objective of promoting responsible behavior in the fight against diseases transmitted by the Aedes mosquito insisting on the properties of the BACTIVEC product and on the importance of the auto-focal in our neighborhoods.
Other educational actions contribute to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases…
The condom use is a daily task not only to prevent people from HIV AIDS or other infectious deseases but also unwanted pregnancy.
Green medicine…
This is a new challenge for pharmacists, the development of natural and traditional medicine. We maintain a great variety of these products for multiple uses. We insist that they are less invasive to the body and it is a good alternative to counteract the limitations of raw material to produce certain drugs in our country.