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Pharmacist (Larkana), Pharmacy Outreach

Department

Integrated Medical Services

Entity

Aga Khan University Hospital

Location

Larkana, Pakistan

Introduction

The Aga Khan University Hospital in addition to its five Hospitals creates access through its Outreach Services across multiples cities in Pakistan. AKUH has a network of 4 secondary care hospitals, 30+ Medical Centres, and over 290+ Clinical Laboratories, 30+ Pharmacies in over 120+ cities across Pakistan. Outreach Services are designed to provide primary to secondary healthcare services to patients near their homes and are present in several cities across Pakistan. Outpatient Medical Centres offer a range of specialty clinics including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Dermatology, Gastroenterology, Cardiopulmonary, Orthopedics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics and Physiotherapy, and cater to children, adults, and elderly patients for general health checks or specific disease consultations.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible to:
  • dispense drugs in the inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory pharmacies
  • review and process physician orders for accurate therapeutic dose
  • monitor lab reports for proper indication of antibiotics, drug-drug interaction, duplication of same class etc
  • ensure timely delivery of medication to nursing units and patients
  • ensure the accuracy of the label before dispensing
  • complete expiry of drug list on accurate and timely basis
  • assist in patient counseling for outpatient prescription and maintenance of cash
  • prepare sterile injection, bulk compounding, and monitoring of chemo critical list
  • manage inventory and expiry of the product.

Requirements

You should have:
  • a Doctorate / Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from a recognized university
  • traineeship experience in Retail Pharmacy / medium / large hospital or preferably one year experience in the similar capacity
  • familiarity with hospital pharmacy functioning
  • sound knowledge of physiology, pharmacology and pharmaceutical
  • familiarity with locally available drugs, pharmaceutical and their indications
  • ability to communicate with medical professionals
  • willingness to work in shift duties.
Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.

To Apply

​Please send your detailed CV to human.resources@aku.edu. Please mark subject with the position title "Pharmacist-Larkana". 

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Applications should be submitted latest by March 2, 2025