Industrial Tour / Hospital Visit of NET Pharmacy College Students
As a part of curriculum of RGUHS For B. Pharmacy students the industrial tour is mandatory so as to acquire and practical knowledge of Theoretical applications. Similarly, to observe the health care unit, patient counselling, maintenance of prescription, ADR’s, etc. it has almost become essential to visit multi-speciality Hospital. Hence the college arranged an educational / Industrial tour under the guidance and supervision of the staff members namely Dr. Shivaraj Gouda, HOD, Department of Pharmacology, Mr. Ramesh Babu Gattu, HOD, Department of Pharmacognosy and Dr Rahul Sabbu Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy practice.
Our B. Pharmacy students were keen and enthusiastic for industrial visit. They visited Remidex Pharma Private Limited, Peenya industrial area, Bangalore. As per the schedule fixed by industry Mr Bheemesh, Production Manager received the staff and students and took them to storage and packaging department. He explained how the Raw Materials and finished goods are labelled and stored. From there he took us to production department where he explained us how granules are prepared, blended and punched followed by packing, etc. He explained in detail the quality assurance of the various products before they are released to the market. The students were extremely happy to know the details of practical applications which they have studied in theory in the institution. This was sort of institution – industrial interaction which served the very purpose of the industrial tour.
When the pharmacy students are busy with their industrial visit the arrangement was made for Pharm D students to visit Narayana Hrudalaya Health city, Bommasandra, Bangalore which is multi-speciality JCI and NABH accredited Hospital. This hospital attracts the patients all over the world and extends free healthcare services in cases worth for free treatment. Quality treatment at low-cost to achieve health for all which is the Moto of this hospital.
Dr Sirisha, HOD, department of clinical pharmacy who received the staff and students made the arrangement to visit various departments like Department of clinical pharmacy, critical care unit, AITU, PITU, Department of oncology, general wards and all important necessary activities like prescription auditing, medication therapy management, medication error reporting, drug interactions, storage, etc. The students felt satisfaction for the visit of such reputed multi-speciality Hospital.
To keep all students joyful, good mood and recreation the visit of some good spots was also arranged along with the industrial tour. As a part of it we visited Madekeri and nearby places. We visited Dhubare Forest where we had an opportunity to observe elephant camp. We enjoyed to see elephants to feed and also observed elephants playing in water and captured some good photos. This was followed by visit to an excellent and beautiful Tibetan Golden Temple. We were highly impressed to see the Santity, cleanliness, Beauty and discipline of the temple. We are of the opinion it is the Place of worth seeing. Next day morning we visited Kaveri Nisargadham which appears to be island with bamboo forest, hanging Bridge, beautiful green garden where observed. Free movement of deer also observed. We also observed Abbe falls and Talakaveri which is the origin of river Kaveri. This spot is a holy place where thousands of devotees visit Daily and offer pujas. After this visit we were waiting eagerly to visit Raja seat which is a wonderful place to observe the sunset and beautiful scenery.
On last and concluding Day of our tour we visited wonder la water park place which one should not miss and thus, the tour was memorable one.