The Roland Pharmacy College on the outskirts of the city here organised an exhibition on health and medicine. Berhampur University Vice-Chancellor Prof Deepak Kumar Behera inaugurated it.
Prof Behera, lauding the role of pharmacy in the modern day healthcare, urged the researchers of pharmaceutical sciences to utilise their knowledge for production of medicines and lifesaving drugs for the most critical diseases.
Principal Dr MEH Rao explained the significance and objectives of the exhibition. He also called upon the pharmaceutical researchers to work for the welfare of society. College director Dr K Surya Rao and his team of faculty members explained utilitarian value of different pharmaceutical drugs and herbals to the students and other visitors.
College managing committee chairperson J Jayalakshmi encouraged the students and faculty members to resort to result oriented research in pharmacy for the benefit of society.
Different pharmaceutical medicines, medicinal plants and newly invented injections were displayed in more than one hundred stalls. Vice Principal Dr BVV Rabi Kumar and lecturer C H Niranjan Patra coordinated.