Pharmacy is the paramedical branch that fulfils one of the most basic needs of mankind that is alleviating suffering due to ill health by supplying safe effective and authentic medicines and guiding the people to adopt healthy life style in order to maintain good health. Pharmacist is responsible for dispensing, storage and manufacturing of drugs.

Apart from this, it also offers clinical services like counseling the patient about the correct use, dosages, side effects and adverse drug reaction of the drugs and assists them in the treatment of poisoning.  He also makes them aware about deadly diseases like AIDS, Cancer, Hepatitis and helps in their prevention and early detection. It is the pharmacist, who first of all becomes aware of an epidemic of infectious disease in a community. Thus pharmacy is a centre of community health and contributes a great deal to preventive and social medicine. It acts as a drug information centre providing a link between the physician and the patient. The importance of Pharmacy is evident from the fact that even a skilled physician is dependent on pharmacist for the supply of pure and effective medicines to cure the patient.