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ANALYSIS REPORT: DISTRIBUTION OF POISON LICENSE A HOLDERS AND COMMUNITY PHARMACIES IN MALAYSIA
By Tan Zhi Shan, Sujata (RPh 14569) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
State Community Pharmacy Private Hospital/Clinic Industry/Vet/Wholesale TOTAL %
Johor 408 25 27 460 9.2
Kedah 227 9 12 248 5.0
Kelantan 109 3 5 117 2.3
Melaka 159 15 14 188 3.8
Negeri Sembilan 148 10 13 171 3.4
Pahang 110 5 1 116 2.3
Perak 303 12 12 327 6.5
Perlis 22 1 0 23 0.5
Pulau Pinang 393 60 69 522 10.4
Sabah 233 12 35 280 5.6
Sarawak 334 25 30 389 7.8
Selangor 910 126 408 1444 28.8
Terengganu 84 1 2 87 1.7
W.P. Kuala Lumpur &
Putrajaya 446 113 71 630
12.6
W.P. Labuan 6 0 0 6 0.1
TOTAL 3892 417 699 5008 100
DISTRIBUTION OF LICENSE A HOLDERS IN MALAYSIA (AS OF 31/12/2018)
State Number of Community Pharmacy %
Johor 334 11.6
Kedah 206 7.1
Kelantan 102 3.5
Melaka 100 3.5
Negeri Sembilan 106 3.7
Pahang 92 3.2
Perak 224 7.8
Perlis 22 0.8
Pulau Pinang 269 9.3
Sabah 174 6.0
Sarawak 252 8.7
Selangor 642 22.2
Terengganu 60 2.1
W.P. Kuala Lumpur & Putrajaya 301 10.4
W.P. Labuan 5 0.2
TOTAL 2889 100
DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNITY PHARMACIES IN MALAYSIA (AS OF 31/12/2018)
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2 1. INTRODUCTION:
As of 31st December 2018, there is no publicly available data which shows the exact number and composition breakdown of Poison License A holders (usually Pharmacists) as well as the number of Community Pharmacies in Malaysia. There is a Register of Licenses available on the Official Portal of Pharmaceutical Services Program, Ministry of Health Malaysia. However its filtering and sorting functions are limited, for example 1:
Licenses are only distinguishable by Retail, Retail and Wholesale, Wholesale but no other categories available for selection
Licenses which have been cancelled remains in the Register, which results in several duplicates, especially if the license holder changes company or moves to a different state to work
2. OBJECTIVES
To determine the exact number of Poison License A holders in Malaysia and to sort them according to their respective categories
To determine the exact number of Community Pharmacies in Malaysia
3. METHODOLOGY
1. Available data was extracted from the Register of Licenses, Official Portal of Pharmaceutical Services Program (refer Appendix 1) on the 31st of December 2018 to ensure it was the most updated. Microsoft Excel was used to sort and analyse the data.
2. The data was sorted by name, address, type of license to ensure all duplicates were removed.
Then the data was separated into different states before being sorted out into various categories:
Community Pharmacy, Private Hospitals/Clinic and Industry/Vet/Wholesale based on the license category as well as using the company name as a guide. (refer Appendix 2)
3. The names of the license holders were removed and only the company name was remained.
Duplicates were removed to determine the exact number of Community Pharmacies in Malaysia. (refer Appendix 3)
4. All the sorted data was then compiled into a simplified table.
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3 4. RESULTS
In total there were 5008 unique Poison License A holders and 2889 Community Pharmacies located throughout Malaysia in which Selangor has the highest percentage of License A holders as well as number of Community Pharmacies accessible to the general public.
Table 1
Table 2
State Community Pharmacy Private Hospital/Clinic Industry/Vet/Wholesale TOTAL %
Johor 408 25 27 460 9.2
Kedah 227 9 12 248 5.0
Kelantan 109 3 5 117 2.3
Melaka 159 15 14 188 3.8
Negeri Sembilan 148 10 13 171 3.4
Pahang 110 5 1 116 2.3
Perak 303 12 12 327 6.5
Perlis 22 1 0 23 0.5
Pulau Pinang 393 60 69 522 10.4
Sabah 233 12 35 280 5.6
Sarawak 334 25 30 389 7.8
Selangor 910 126 408 1444 28.8
Terengganu 84 1 2 87 1.7
W.P. Kuala Lumpur &
Putrajaya 446 113 71 630
12.6
W.P. Labuan 6 0 0 6 0.1
TOTAL 3892 417 699 5008 100
DISTRIBUTION OF LICENSE A HOLDERS IN MALAYSIA (AS OF 31/12/2018)
State Number of Community Pharmacy %
Johor 334 11.6
Kedah 206 7.1
Kelantan 102 3.5
Melaka 100 3.5
Negeri Sembilan 106 3.7
Pahang 92 3.2
Perak 224 7.8
Perlis 22 0.8
Pulau Pinang 269 9.3
Sabah 174 6.0
Sarawak 252 8.7
Selangor 642 22.2
Terengganu 60 2.1
W.P. Kuala Lumpur & Putrajaya 301 10.4
W.P. Labuan 5 0.2
TOTAL 2889 100
DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNITY PHARMACIES IN MALAYSIA (AS OF 31/12/2018)
MALAYSIAN PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY (MPS)
4 5. DISCUSSION
With these data, many other research can be carried out, such as determining whether there are sufficient Pharmacists in the private sector compared to the recommended ratio by WHO, and so forth.
Limitation of this report:
Data analysed was not cross-checked by a third party and this could cause some deviation (estimated to be around 5%) due to human error.
Certain companies may be categorized into the wrong group as the company name is quite ambiguous to the author
6. CONCLUSON
There are a total of 5008 Poison License A holders and 2889 Community Pharmacies in Malaysia as of 31st December 2018.
REFERENCES
1. Official Portal of Pharmaceutical Services Program. Ministry of Health Malaysia. Register of Licenses.https://www.pharmacy.gov.my/v2/en/information/register-licences.html [extracted on 31st December 2018]
