Pharmacists allied with sustainable improvement

The General Council of Pharmaceutical Colleges has presented the ‘II Awards for Social Innovation: Pharmaceuticals and SDGs’ in an act that become chaired with the aid of the Minister of Health, José Manuel Miñones. These recognitions, prepared with the collaboration of CaixaBank and AstraZeneca, intention to apprehend the first-class projects released by way of pharmacists and Official Colleges of Pharmacists and/or Autonomous Councils to make a contribution to the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In overall, they've introduced six awardsfour inside the category socialand two inside the environmental. Regarding the first, within the subject of Official Colleges of Pharmacists, the winner became the Very Illustrious Official College of Pharmacists of Valencia for the mission ‘Sustainability of the rural pharmacy and VEC as a basis for enhancing lifestyles in rural regions and their depopulation. Healthy Circuits’, inclusive of the development of screenings and schooling movements by means of network pharmacists from thirteen municipalities vulnerable to depopulation. The Minister of Health changed into in fee of supplying the award to María Teresa Vicedo, member of Farmacia Rural.

In the social category of pharmacists, the first prize went to Ishoo Budhari, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, for the undertaking ‘#JuntosXElCáncer – #JuntosXElCáncerDeMama – JUNTOSXTUSALUD’, which ambitions to provide correct and established facts on specific pathologies thru social networks. Ishoo has acquired the award from Ramón Reyes, president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer. The 2d prize has been added through Luis Cayo, president of CERMI, to Águeda Ringfrom León, for the challenge ‘Well-being and Health within the World of Disability’ with which they have created a completely handy and inclusive pharmacy.

In the environmental class, the prize for the Official Colleges of Pharmacists went to Malaga for its challenge ‘Environmental edition and integration of ICOFMA’, which has concerned the entire reform of the headquarters and the incorporation of the environmental attitude in each creation of the building as well as in the lengthy-term approach of the College. The vice treasurer, Montserrat de Cuadra, obtained the award from Pilar Pasaron, Head of Corporate Affairs and Director of the AstraZeneca Foundation.

Gorka Oribe y Unax Lertxundi They had been the pharmacists diagnosed in this class by the ‘Basque Sustainable Pharmacy’ project, awarding Toni Rodríguez, director of CaixaBank Negocios. His mission includes growing an innovation application inside the field of Pharmacontamination based on three axes: studies, dissemination and merchandising of answers.

Lastly, the Direct Help award, given through Father Ángel, went to the ‘farmaSOLIDARIA Project to help homeless households’, from Madrid Carmen Torreswho for 4 months became a catalyst for donations from her associates that she later brought to the Lázaro Foundation for the conditioning of residences aimed at this hazard organization.

Likewise, the General Council has additionally offered the rest of the finalists a diploma in reputation in their tasks, consultant of the commitment of the pharmaceutical profession for its impact at the community, replicability, alignment with the SDGs and potential for social transformation.

Social innovation

The Minister of Health, José Manuel Miñones, was in fee of last the event and said that “it is a pride, as a pharmacist, to participate in an act of the General Council and even more so in those awards for social innovation. The UN General Assembly tailored in 2015 its commitment to sustainable development based totally on seventeen objectives and 169 goals; a venture that is incumbent on absolutely everyone, no longer simply the management. And in this experience, he brought that pharmacists “are a key agent for our health device and with that mandate of the 2030 Agenda.” Finally, he recalled that he is operating to make the ‘Rural Community Pharmacy Program’ signed ultimate March among the General Council and the Ministries of Health, Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, and Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge a truth.

For his component, Jesús Aguilar, president of the General Council, identified, in reference to the forty one tasks presented on this name, that “you're all winners because, way to you, we've visible a glimpse, not handiest of what we are able to do , but of what we're already doing from the Pharmacy in want of sufferers, susceptible organizations, and also to enhance the environment. All of you are tremendous examples of dedication, dedication and vocation for provider that symbolize the pharmaceutical profession”.

Likewise, Aguilar brought that “our revel in and closeness, guaranteed with the aid of a network of extra than 22,000 pharmacies and 78,000 pharmacists, placed us in a very precious role to realize the wishes of the environment and to deliver desire, health and well-being to our communities”, he concluded.