After two years of hiatus due to the Covid pandemic, Spanish pharmacists and pharmacists from around the world will meet again in two congresses that will be held together in Seville from September 18 to 22, 2022: the 22nd National Pharmaceutical Congress and the 80th World Pharmacy Congress. . The presidents of the General Council of Pharmacists, Jesús Aguilar; and from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Dominique Jordan; They have been in charge of presenting both events today in Madrid.
Around 5.000 professionals (3.500 pharmacists from around the world and 1.500 Spaniards) will participate in the Andalusian capital in the conference to discuss the role of the pharmaceutical profession during the pandemic and its contribution to more effective and efficient health systems.
“We arrived in Seville two years later, but we do it stronger, with more enthusiasm and, above all, with the experience and conviction of being a health profession that, both in Spain and throughout the world, has been essential to overcome successfully the biggest health crisis of the last century”, the President of the General Council pointed out the presentation. Along the same lines, he has stated that “today's world is very different from how it was two years ago. As humanity, we have assumed our collective vulnerability, and we have verified that only science, research and medicines have allowed us to overcome this emergency, which has demonstrated the need to strengthen health systems”.
Aguilar has confirmed that “Seville represents an extraordinary opportunity to continue showing the world the greatness of the pharmaceutical profession. The end of the pandemic will not be the end point. It must be a starting point to start a new path, take on new challenges and implement new services that will benefit patients and health systems”.
In this case, he recalled that the intervention of pharmacists in the supervision, performance, registration and notification of positive cases of Covid-19 through emergency tests "allows Primary Care to be more discharged". In fact, only the first month and a half of this year was suspended, pharmacies supervised more than 600.000 test cases and notified the health system of more than 82.000 positive cases, where it represented 13,6% of the test results achieved.
For his part, the president of the FIP, Dominique Jordan, has soberly called attention to the role of the profession in the last two years and its "strong dedication to the service of our communities, which has shown that pharmacists and pharmacies are part integral part of health systems, a profession that is advancing at an unprecedented rate, expanding the scope of its activities to provide more services”. In his opinion, appointments like the one in Seville serve to "share the experiences carried out by pharmacists in the pandemic so that countries can learn from each other." Jordan wanted to recognize the opportunity for this important event to be held in Spain, "a country that is an example at an international level for its achievements in the avant-garde of Pharmacy both before, as well as the Covid".
With the motto 'Pharmacy, united in the recovery of health care', the 80th World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) will have participants from more than one hundred countries, will review the lessons learned throughout the hanging world the pandemic to prepare for future emergencies. All this has gone through very broad thematic blocks: Never miss a crisis, lessons to face the future; The science and evidence supporting the response to COVID-19; and How to deal with new and unique ethical challenges.
With the motto 'We are pharmacists: Welfare, social and digital', the 22nd National Pharmaceutical Congress will have 11 round tables or debates, 4 innovation sessions and 25 technical sessions, in which they will review the most current professional issues such as new models of continuity between levels of care, Home Pharmaceutical Care, patient safety in the digital environment, professional opportunities, the work of the Pharmaceutical Profession, Social Innovation and Pharmacy Committee, COVID-19: current clinical and therapeutic services, the Portfolio of Professional Pharmaceutical Assistance Services in the SNS, Digitization, Public Health, etc.
