Pharmacy services during COVID-19 pandemic: experience from a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pakistan

They have shared their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and provision of inpatient hospital pharmacy services in a tertiary care hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.

• Response 1: providing event-driven pharmaceutical care
• Response 2: tele-clinical pharmacist activities for making individualized treatment strategies with the multidisciplinary team
• Response 3: keeping the front-line health care providers updated through drug evaluation and evidence-based guidelines
• Response 4: guidance for pharmacy staff for continuity of services; redesigned shift hours
• Response 5: mitigation of drug shortages issues

We will see how European pharmacists respond toward COVID-19 in the next step.