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UWI Pharmacy wins Caribbean Award

For Release Upon Receipt - March 8, 2010

St. Augustine


St Augustine Campus praised for zero tobacco and alcohol policy

 

The Pharmacy of The University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine Campus has been praised at a regional pharmacists’ conference for its policy of not selling tobacco-related products or alcoholic beverages.

At the recently concluded Caribbean Association of Pharmacists’ annual conference, the UWI Pharmacy won the Caribbean Pharmacy Sigma Business Award 2009, copping first place among several entrants from other Caribbean countries.

“This peer award is given to the Pharmacy that epitomises the best of the pharmacy business culture, and provides the setting, service and support for community,” said Ms Pamela Townsend, Pharmacist in the UWI Health Services Unit.

The UWI Pharmacist stated that two significant criteria which the UWI Pharmacy met were not selling tobacco-related products or alcoholic beverages, and supporting community-based activities, such as the annual Student Orientation.

“This achievement is an indication of the pharmacy’s commitment to providing excellent community-based pharmaceutical services to the campus family,” she said in a brief statement.

 

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

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