On the 27th, at the University of Shizuoka, a practical training was held to learn the vaccination procedure for students of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in preparation for a future outbreak of new infectious diseases and a shortage of people to carry out vaccinations.
Since there was a shortage of vaccination workers in some areas due to the new corona, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided last month to allow five occupations other than doctors and nurses, which are permitted under the Medical Practitioners Act.
There are no pharmacists in these five occupations, but there is a possibility that they will be in the future, so at the University of Shizuoka, students from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences will start training for the first time to learn the specific procedures for inoculations. I was.
In the practical training on the 27th, 42 fourth-year students from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences participated, assuming vaccination against the new coronavirus. I was checking the procedure of "intramuscular injection" to inoculate.
The students who took the practical training said, "I was nervous because it was my first practical training," and "It was a mental preparation for the time when pharmacists will become new leaders."
Yoshiyuki Kagawa, dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Shizuoka, said, "It's too late for pharmacists to learn how to administer vaccines after the law is established, so I think we need to start preparing now." .