Help the pharmacy and medical graduates to get jobs

I WRITE in support of the letters written by parents highlighting the long wait for interview of pharmacy graduates with the Public Services Commission (PSC).

My daughter graduated last year and had to work as an Uber driver and a customer service executive while waiting for her placement. Many of her friends are still jobless and waiting for the interview call.

I have several proposals to address this problem.

Please completely stop the intake of new pharmacy students as there is obviously a glut of pharmacy graduates now.

Stop the intake of medical students as well as there are medical graduates who are still waiting for the call-up by the PSC on their internship posting.

Many are asking me whether there are jobs which they can do – any job will do, they say!

Please have more pharmacy companies and retail pharmacists take in pharmacy graduates. Perhaps private hospitals with doctors of certain seniority should also be allowed to take in jobless medical graduates.

Open up the attachment stints for our graduates.

Please allow the dispensing separation of pharmacies and medical clinics so as to make room for jobless pharmacy and medical graduates.

I really pity these unemployed graduates when I hear their comments.

These range from “what’s the point of studying pharmacy?” or “it’s so sad to be a pharmacy graduate” to “is it because the Government has no money to pay our salary?”