Dr. Bhagwan Dass Miglani
About
Dr. B.D. Miglani was a patron of Indian Hospital Pharmacist’s Association and Editor, Indian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, where he worked for over four decades.
Miglani has made many contributions to the profession of pharmacy, particularly in development of hospital pharmacy in India. He has been honored by the Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Pharmacy Graduate Association, Delhi (Nagpur). Besides this, he has also received other recognitions in his account from various associations.
He has a total experience of 33 years in teaching and research. His research areas pertain to pharmaceutics, synthesis and testing of new local anesthetics, medicinal plants and allergy. Miglani has guided several M. Pharm students, including a doctorate in philosophy. B.D. Miglani who is known as the Father of Hospital Pharmacy started the Indian Hospital Pharmacist Association in the country with the founder member of Sh. S.L.Nasa and Sh. Davender K Jain, Ex-Secretary, Pharmacy Council of India.
He also chaired many scientific and professional sessions, presented several research and professional papers in national and international conferences, contributed 200 editorials 100 articles covering education hospital pharmacy and professional issues and authored two books and three chapters.
He has a total experience of 33 years in teaching and research. His research areas pertain to pharmaceutics, synthesis and testing of new local anesthetics, medicinal plants and allergy. Miglani has guided several M. Pharm students, including a doctorate in philosophy. He also chaired many scientific and professional sessions, presented several research and professional papers in national and international conferences, contributed 200 editorials 100 articles covering education hospital pharmacy and professional issues and authored two books and three chapters.
A pioneer in hospital pharmacy, 85-year-old Dr Bhagwan Dass Miglani, a much sought after pharmaceutical consultant and educationist, has witnessed many reforms in pharma industry in India. Born in September1929 in Sahani village, Bhakkar tehsil, in erstwhile Pakistan, Miglani and his family migrated to India saw upheaval during partition. His family moved from his birthplace “due to ethnic trouble in the province of Sindh, and settled in towns along the banks of the Sindh river in Punjab. The family later moved to Rawalpindi, near Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad in the province of Punjab.”
History and works of DR. B.D. Miglani
B.D. Miglani who is known as the Father of Hospital Pharmacy started the Indian Hospital Pharmacist Association in the country with the founder member of Sh. S.L.Nasa and Sh. Davender K Jain, Ex-Secretary, Pharmacy Council of India.
Dr. B.D. Miglani was a patron of Indian Hospital Pharmacist’s Association and Editor, Indian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, where he worked for over four decades.
Miglani has made many contributions to the profession of pharmacy, particularly in development of hospital pharmacy in India. He has been honored by the Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Pharmacy Graduate Association, Delhi (Nagpur). Besides this, he has also received other recognitions in his account from various associations.
He has a total experience of 33 years in teaching and research. His research areas pertain to pharmaceutics, synthesis and testing of new local anesthetics, medicinal plants and allergy. Miglani has guided several M. Pharm students, including a doctorate in philosophy. He also chaired many scientific and professional sessions, presented several research and professional papers in national and international conferences, contributed 200 editorials 100 articles covering education hospital pharmacy and professional issues and authored two books and three chapters.
A pioneer in hospital pharmacy, 85-year-old Dr Bhagwan Dass Miglani, a much sought after pharmaceutical consultant and educationist, has witnessed many reforms in pharma industry in India. Born in September1929 in Sahani village, Bhakkar tehsil, in erstwhile Pakistan, Miglani and his family migrated to India saw upheaval during partition. His family moved from his birthplace “due to ethnic trouble in the province of Sindh, and settled in towns along the banks of the Sindh river in Punjab. The family later moved to Rawalpindi, near Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad in the province of Punjab.”
His Role Model
Though it is conventional to choose role models who are far advanced in their careers, it is a fact that good examples of leaders can come in all shapes and sizes and indeed ages. In Mr.Miglani’s case, it was a fellow student. As a student of the B. Pharm course in the Department of Pharmaceutics, Punjab University, located at Glancy Medical College and Khalsa College, Amritsar in 1948, he was so impressed with classmate Mr.Harkrishan Singh, that he choose him as his role model. Singh was academically sound, religious, hard working, a disciplinarian, sincere, man of action, devoted and dedicated to his professional pursuits. Singh went on to become a prominent medicinal chemist and a science historian and worked in premier institutions in India and abroad. Presently, he is Professor Emeritus at the Punjab University. The two classmates have remained friends since 1948, have worked together on many professional issues. Their differences on certain occasions never effected their friendship, reveals Miglani.
There have been many thought-provoking leaders who encouraged and motivated Mr.Miglani to aim high. He freely acknowledges their contribution in his life and goes on to list their names, “Prof KN Gaind, not only motivated him to continue post-graduate studies but made it possible for him to continue the same while in service under his guidance in the Department of Pharmacy, Punjab University, Chandigarh. He attended Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC) sessions almost regularly after completion of his studies and came in contact with prominent personalities and pillars of the profession of pharmacy, like Prof ML Schroff (known as the ‘Father of Pharmacy’), Prof GP Srivastava ( from Benaras Hindu University), Dr S Rohatagi (President, Pharmacy Council of India), Prof PC Dandiya (Professor Emeritus), Prof SN Sharma (Professor Emeritus) and others, like RB Patel (Drug Controller, Maharashtra and Gujarat), Dr Parminder Singh (founder of Ranbaxy Laboratories ), Dr Nitya Anand (Director, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow), had been motivational forces for him since they had been promoting the cause of the pharmacy profession.”
… to becoming a motivator
Having observed and followed closely so many leaders, Miglani was now ready to be one himself. And the opportunity came when he laid the foundation of the Indian Hospital Pharmacists’ Association (IHPA) in 1963 at that year’s IPC.
Relating the sequence of events, Mr. Miglani recalls, “My mission has been to promote the profession of hospital pharmacy and for this hospital pharmacists, like, SH Merchant, NS Gayatonde, VK Oesterling, and others had not only been my motivational force but we also worked together to uplift the profession of hospital pharmacy”. He joined Irwin Hospital in 1951, as a hospital pharmacist and since then he wanted to organise an association of hospital pharmacists and to brought out a publication to be entitled, Indian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, in the country. Margaret Benfield, Hospital Pharmacist, Holdsworth Memorial Hospital, Mysore, wrote to Dr Chakraborty, Secretary, IPC expressing the desirability of organising hospital pharmacists in India to improve the deplorable condition of hospital pharmacies.”
“That letter, referred to me, inspired me that when foreigners feel so concerned about our plight then why we ourselves are not sensitive to such issues. Thus, I took the initiative to organise the IHPA in 1963 at the IPC Session at Pilani and instituted the publication of the Indian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy in 1964,” reveals Mr.Miglani.
Awards & Recognitions
Awards
2014: Shri Bhojraj Panjamool Life Time Achievement Award, Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) for Education and Research
2009: Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Hospital Pharmacist’s Association (IGPA) in recognition of his contribution to the profession of pharmacy and development of hospital pharmacy
2007: Professor GP Srivastava Memorial Award, APTI, in recognition of excellence in pharma education
2002: Drug Inspectors Welfare Association (DIWA) Award, in recognition of his services to pharmacy profession especially in the area of hospital pharmacy
1985: Professor ML Schroff Memorial National Award, IGPA, in recognition of his contribution to hospital pharma services, pharmacy education and journalism
1980: Acharya, Sir PC Ray Memorial Gold Medal, Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) , in recognition of his hard and painstaking work for the profession of pharmacy in general, especially in the areas of hospitals and health clinics
Recognitions
- Convener, ER-2001 for Bachelor of Pharmacy (PCI), 1999
- Member, Delhi State Essential Drugs Formulary Committee, 1996-97.
- Member, Sub-Committee of the Pharmacopoeia of India, Govt. of India, Ministry of Health (1982-83 and 1993-94);
- Member, Pharmacy Council of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, 1986.
- President, Delhi Pharmacy Council, 1983
- Member National Formulary of India, Govt. of India, Ministry of Health (1979);
- Fellow, Indian College of Allergy & Applied Immunology, 1968
- Founder Secretary, Indian College of Allegry & Immunology, 1967
- Founder Editor – Indian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, 1964-2007; Chief Editor, Graduates Pharmaceutica, 1978-82;
Member, Editorial Boards of
- The Pharma Times and Indian Hospital Administration,
- Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice
- Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education & Research.
Book authored by Dr. B. D. Miglani
