Baripada 22/11 (Fast News Odisha) The 64th National Pharmacy Week has been launched by Odisha Pharmacy Service Association, Mayurbhanj district branch. On this occasion, a procession organized in the morning was led by Additional District Health Officer Dr. Vijay Kumar Das and Ashok Kumar, chairman of Mayurbhanjkal Medical Academy, inaugurated the event. Later, in the meeting held under the chairmanship of the president of the district hospital, Chinmay Kumar Sniha, district chief medical and public health officer Kishore Kumar Acharya was the chief guest, chairman of PRM Medical College Dr. Dr. Ritanjali Behera, Additional District Health Officer. Vijay Kumar Das, DPM Anil Kumar Mohanty, Mayurbhanj Medical Academy Chairman Ashok Kumar Gurchi, Drugs Controller Dibaranjan Naik, Hospital Manager Sriram Mohanty, Vice President Sanjeev Sahu Joint Editor Development Pots Treasurer Shushant Bagh, Senior Pharmacist Ajit Kumar Behera, Pharmacists Odisha attended as guest of honor. Said to be the backbone of health services. In the meeting, there was a demand for increasing the basic pay from 9300 to 4200 grade pay along with recruitment of more pharmacy officers. Rupnarayan Pratihari and Swabinalakshmi Raut introduced the guests while Pharmacy Officer Tapan Kalia, Maniklal Ghosh Sam Sethi, Dekshisha Naik, Rashmiranjan Dash, Rupendra Nath Singh, Khagendra Pan, Banlata Barik, Rupali Bhadra Smita Parida, Anil Gupta contributed to the main management.