Omega Machekera

• Counseling customers on their medical conditions and medications, both prescription and OTC, with the most up-to-date, evidence-based information.
• Accurately dispensing and checking prescriptions to ensure patient safety.
• Building and maintaining relationships with local health professionals to coordinate patient care and improve their health outcomes.
• Supervising and coaching pharmacy assistants and interns.
• Administering 8CPA programs and following QCPP policies and procedures.
• Maintaining detailed records, and ensuring adherence to relevant pharmaceutical regulations.
• Actively contributing to the overall success and growth of the pharmacy.
• Providing vaccination services to patients.

• Working under the preceptor and registered pharmacists, assisting with prescriptions in and out, and dispensing.
• Provide patient counseling and advice on the safe use of medications and over-the-counter products.
• Engage in clinical services, such as MedsChecks and vaccination programs.
• Ordering and unpacking dispensary stock and assisting with inventory control.
• Completing the Intern Training Program (PSA).

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, non-profit, medical, humanitarian organization, providing exclusively humanitarian medical assistance to populations in distress across the world. MSF runs medical facilities, hospitals, and clinics focusing on maternal and child healthcare, specialist trauma care for war-wounded individuals, health emergencies, disease outbreaks, HIV, neglected diseases, malnutrition, and mental health.

• Supervising pharmacy departments for field hospitals.
• Designing and implementing strategies and processes for the procurement, storage, distribution, and use of medicines and medical items in MSF's medical facilities.
• Maintaining pharmaceutical inventory to ensure therapeutic care for patients is not disrupted or compromised.
• Providing oversight, training activities and mentoring support to pharmacy staff as appropriate and as required

• Ensuring the efficient flow of work in the pharmacy, optimizing pharmacy financials, inventory management, and enhancing customer experience.
• Providing pharmacy consulting services to customers regarding the effective usage of medications, awareness of drug interactions, and offering preventive healthcare services.
• Ensuring the proper compounding and dispensing.

• Analyzing and processing reports on Adverse Drug Reactions, Adverse Effects Following Immunization, product defects, and other drug safety issues received from practitioners for presentation to the Pharmacovigilance and Clinical Trials Committee.
• Processing and writing evaluation reports for applications for the reinstatement of medicines that were once registered.
• Scientifically evaluating applications for amendments to the manufacturing of already registered medicines.

• Maintaining pharmaceutical stock, creating inventories and timeously procuring pharmacy stocks.
• Mentored pharmacy assistants and students on attachment in best practices.
• Implemented antibiotic stewardship programs to optimize antimicrobial use and reduce resistance.
• Detected and reported therapeutic incompatibilities.
• Assisted in the development and implementation of hospital pharmacy policies and procedures.

• Working under the direct and continuous supervision of the branch pharmacist for all duties in the pharmacy.
• Ensured accurate preparation and delivery of prescribed medications.
• Ordering medicines for the pharmacy.
• Patient counseling.