The Official College of Pharmacists of Albacete has held its Ordinary General Assembly at the Headquarters of the collegiate body, where it has approved the Continuity Budget for 2023, the Activities Report for the 2022 Fiscal Year and the Budget Settlement of the previous year.
In his report, the president of the institution, José Javier Martínez Morcillo, highlights some of the most important works carried out during the past year and that will be strengthened throughout this year, with plans to gradually train and update professionals is being made. on all the health issues that concern him the most.
Martínez Morcillo highlights the great work done by the Official College of Pharmacists, not only during the last year but also for the past several years, in order to comply strictly with the budget, which has not led to the revision of the quota of members. Despite the significant increase in supply items, the salaries of the Institute’s staff and the various taxes that the organization has to pay annually have been the only source of income for the college for many years.
The control of expenses, as stated by the President of the Albacete College of Pharmacists, has not affected any essential function of the College, which is none other than to guarantee the equity and universality of optimal pharmaceutical care for the citizens of the Province of Albacete. , as well as giving visibility to the daily work, as well as from different sectors, not only community pharmacy, but also hospital and research, among other areas of work, have always been due to this profession and professionals as sanitary.
Another fact highlighted by the head of the collegiate body is the increase in membership for new graduates who complete their studies in the Faculty of Pharmacy on the Albacete campus and a significant number of them choose to practice their profession in this province. chooses. This figure is currently slated to reach 670 by 31 December 2022, although new registrations will take place in the coming months with graduates of the last promotion.
Precisely in this regard, Martínez Morcillo values the good rapport that the College of Pharmacists maintains with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, an institution with which it maintains its collaboration every year for the training of future graduates and renews. Supervised internship programs, as well as the collaborative fabric of the city’s social-hygienic sector, to support all initiatives that seek the cooperation of the profession, so as to get the most out of pharmacists’ statistics and their professionalism To be. Valued and taken into account by professionals and policy makers in decision making and development of prevention and health promotion programs.
