Pakistan, March 17 -- The experts from pharmaceutical industry, leading professors and academicians of pharmacy and government officials related to the field emphasized on different ways that how a patient can avoid harms of using drugs and medicines and how the medication safety can be ensured. All the academicians and practitioners from the field of pharmacy stressed that there is a dire need to revamp the prevailing curriculum of pharmacy in Pakistan during the first international symposium on 'Medical Safety' organized by the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH) here at a local hotel in Lahore on Saturday.

Senator Dr Musadik Malik, who was the keynote speaker in one of the sessions, said that the curric...