Annual report on the work of the Ministry of Public Health / Egypt.

  • Egypt. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah al-ʻUmūmīyah
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Annual report on the work of the Ministry of Public Health / Egypt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Statistics concerning Pharmacies during the Year 1923 (continued). Pharmacies. Cairo. Alexandria. Provinces. Total. Cases pending :— Qualified proprietors . 2 1 4 | 1 \ 7 \ ,, managers . 4 1 j 4 j 9 Assistant pharmacists . 4 2 f 4 f 10 1 Apprentices . 2 \ = 43 1 \ = 21 fd = 54 4 — 118 Unqualified proprietors. 4 [ 4 1 4 l 12 i ,, persons. 17 9 | 39 \ 65 1 Poison dealers. 10 ] l) 11 ' Cases acquitted :— Qualified proprietors . _ 1 Unqualified persons. 1 1 l — o is- J Cases filed:— Qualified managers. 1 ) I 'l Apprentices . i , _/ 1 / Unqualified persons. i = 1 2 = 5 Poison dealers. l' — \ i\ Samples of drugs, etc,, sent to Laboratories for analysis :— Received from provinces. 68 ) Bought by agents or received from ' — 128 Central Stores . 60 \ Conform to standard ... 40 Not conform . 20 The samples received from the provinces were preparations suspected of containing opium, datum, oi hashish and were reported as either positive or negative. Samples which were previously passed to the Laboratories through the Inspectorate by the Central Stores are now sent direct. Pharmacists. Thirty-five pharmacists have been authorized to practise in Egypt during 1923; vhey were in possession of diplomas from the following colleges : - Atlanta . 1 Athens . 4 Beyrouth . 7 Cairo. 10 Constantinople. 11 Lausanne. 1 London . 1 The number of student pharmacists serving their training in pharmacies has increased during the year from 18 to 21. This increase although small is a good sign for the reason that as the number of pharmacists qualified from the School of Pharmacy, Cairo, becomes larger there will be no necessity to grant authorizations to foreigners to practise in Egypt as the country will find sufficient for its needs. There are at the present time 899 phar¬ macists authorized to practise in Egypt. Assistant-Pharmacists. Previous to the Ministerial Order No. 2337 (by which anyone wishing to register as an apprentice assistant-pharmacist is obliged to be in possession of the Secondary Certi¬ ficate, Part 1), the majority of apprentices had only a very elementary education and this constitutes a danger to both the pharmaceutical profession and to the general public. To the former because they occupied places in pharmacies which should have been filled by properly trained men and to the latter by reason oi their low standard of education. As a result of the above Minsiterial Order no one has applied for registration as an apprentice during 1923.