Pharmacist feted
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After playing a key role in protecting people from the potential dangers of steroids, Parnuchote Tongyoung was recognised yesterday as this year's prominent rural pharmacist.
The award was presented by the Pharmacy for Society Foundation, the Health Consumer Protection Project and Chulalongkorn University’s Social Research Institute.
Parnuchote, 49, has been working at the Samut Sakhon public health office for 22 years.
He assisted in efforts to build the capacity of the consumer protec-tion network of pharmacists, and recently initiated a project to survey the improper use of medicines, especially steroids. Based on his study of the way steroids were being abused in the province, a steroid surveillance network was set up to monitor the problem in community and general hospitals.
Parnuchote worked with his counterparts at other hospitals to educate people living with HIV/Aids about pharmaceutical products. He also served as president of the Rural Pharma-cists Society.
