World Pharmacist Day 2020

25^th September, 2020

Lloyd Institute of Management and Technology (Pharm.) was proud to celebrate World Pharmacist Day on 25 September 2020 on the theme “Transforming Global Health”. Dr. Kumud Madan, Assist.Prof, Pharmacy Department under the guidance of Dr. Vandana Arora Sethi, Group Director, Lloyd Group of Institutions hosted and introduced the pharmacy program to the new students.

On this occasion an inter college Poster making and Elocution contest was organized for B. Pharm & M. Pharm students. The Magnate chief Guest for this event was Mr. T. Rama Rao, Founder & Senior Consultant, Sai Pharma Consultants. Prof. Kanchan Kohli, Head and Prof, Department of Pharmaceutics, Jamia Hamdard University and Ms. Sarika Mahtta, Assoc. Prof. & Training and Placement Officer, Lloyd were the Jury Members to this event.

Many students from Colleges like Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, MD University, H.I.M.T., BBD University, Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, Mesco College of Pharmacy, Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s College of Pharmacy, Sanskar College of Pharmacy and Research, etc proactively participated in this event.

Dr. Vandana Arora Sethi started the session by a welcome note and wishing the young pharmacist a Happy World Pharmacist Day. Later Mr. T. Rama Rao spoke on how pharmacy profession is on the top of career and its various plethoras that are contributed to the society. Poster making finalists were selected and later on the shortlisted students of elocution contest went with their elocution on either of these topics Role of Community Pharmacist in COVID-19, Pharmacist in Global Health, Growth Drivers of Indian Pharma Sector and Pharma Vision 2020.

Winners of the Poster Competition were Priti Kanifnath Adhav from Dnyanvilas College of Pharmacy, Dudulgaon, Pune bagged the first position. Ritik Raj from Lloyd secured the second postion and third positions were won by two students, Pawan from Lloyd and Aishwayra from Elixir Institute of Pharmacy, Pune. Winner for the Elocution contest were Naman Mudgal from Lloyd won the first position, Jessica and Ojas from Lloyd shared the second position, Afifa Aziz, Mesco College of Pharmacy, Hyderabad secured third position.