Career for Pharmacist at Model Jail
The Model Jail, Chandigarh is the only Prison in the Union Territory which caters to the needs of Haryana, Punjab & UT Chandigarh, in the event of agitations.The Prisons are also not congested as the prisoners population of 450-500 falls much shorter of the prison capacity of 1000.The prison is well managed and kept very neat and clean proving true to its status of being a Model Jail. The prisoners are very well looked after and food, clothing and other facilities as per scales mentioned in the Punjab Jail Manual. Proper medical facilities are provided in the Jail Dispensary, set up under the charge of Medical Officer assisted by two Pharmacists. Medical specialists,Dental Surgeon and other specialists are deputed for check up of prisoners from General Hospital Sector- 16,GMCH, Sector-32,PGI. On medical advice prisoners are sent to the Government Hospitals for check up and treatment on expenses paid by Government.
The University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Panjab University is a premier institution of Pharmaceutical Education and Research in the country. The institute has covered a long and glorious journey of 76 years starting from Lahore in 1944 and finally settling to the present campus in Chandigarh at the foothills of Himachal. In its travelogue, the institute crossed multiple milestones and continue to head ahead towards the well-defined goals. The elevation of the status from department to the level of an institute i.e. University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1994, and hosting of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress in the same year, two presidential honors of the Indian Pharmaceutical Congresses to its faculty members, a special recognition by the UGC by granting SAP in 1993 and COSIST in 1981 establishment of ICMR Advanced Centre for standardization of Drugs of Indian System of Medicine are some of the major hallmarks on the path treaded so far.
