Guyanese pharmacists again excelled at the Caribbean Association of Pharmacists (CAP), winning an award and election to a senior post within the regional grouping.
Of the 12 local members who attended the CAP conference last month in Barbados, Karishma Jeeboo won the Pharmacy Practice Pioneer Award 2012 and Fabiola Robertson was elected third vice president of the regional group. Kalawattie Datt-Singh and Lonette Samuels retained their posts as CAP’s national liaison officers in Guyana.
The release said the annual conference is held in a different country each year and attracts pharmacists from the Caribbean, Canada, the United Kingdom and the USA. The pharmacists are exposed to continuing education sessions while pharmaceutical companies from around the world display their products.
The delegates are encouraged to keep abreast of current developments in pharmacy and the delivery of health care services. They are also urged to serve and mobilize individual country associations towards a more vibrant collective pharmacy workforce.
Next year the CAP conference will be held at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. It will be a joint conference between the CAP and Commonwealth Pharmacists Association. Guyana has been identified to host the CAP conference in 2015.
