The College has organized a guest lecture presented by Ms. Chiang Sau Chu, Director of The Hong Kong Pharmaceutical Care Foundation on 18 April 2018. The Foundation was founded by pharmacists who wish to provide pharmaceutical services and to improve elderly medication use in old-age homes by applying their expertise and professional knowledge. The lecture was given to all Medical and Health Products Management students and the aims of the lecture were:
- to arouse the students’ awareness of the current problems of drug management and dispensing in the elderly homes of Hong Kong in general; and
- to introduce the drug management system developed by the Foundation to the elderly homes in order to ensure medication safety and drug handling efficiency.