It's well recognized in my country (Colombia) since 120 years ago.

Dear Mr. Ramesh.

In my opinion, the popularity of pharmacist in every country is different.

At least in the city that I lived in my home country and the current country I study, pharmacists were recognized as the smart people that will make a lot of money. They have their own pride to be a pharmacist. They do make a lot of money and well recognized by the people.

Probably the regulation and law that manage the pharmacy profession affect the popularity of this profession.

in case of india there is dpharm,bpharm,pharm d,mpharm so what is the use of all this even a 2 year diploma guy will get a licence for pharmacist and those who study 6 yrs pharm d they get after 6 years. untill this diploma and bpharm courses are not shut down there will not be any value of pharmacist and we require a single degree for pharmacist and it is the pharmacist that makes a drug and informs a doctor about for what it is used after doing research and doctor gives that information to patients hence pharmacist should have that value but unfortunately pharma companies have lower the value of pharmacist by making them MR which keeps waiting for doctor as a result doctor dont gave them that much value 

in addition to all the giving responses, I think pharmacists them selves have a part of responsibility; so they must work to improve their profession and take their place within the healthcare team. 

I think, the main reason is there were no many medications in these countries since recently. If there were no drugs, the experts who will care of them were not required. Now a days because of the introduction of new drugs into the market the number of pharmacists as well as the system to manage is growing. 

I disagree. In my country we have been able to acquire medications since 250 years ago... but it was mostly distributed by medical doctors instead of pharmacist. Then there was some medical doctors specialized in the formulations of medicines and they made some boticary or apothecaria (ancient drugstore).

In Jamaica, and I know in many other Caribbean countries the traditional emphasis and 'authority figure' in health has been the physician and it has been a long journey for pharmacists to break the stranglehold and be recognized as professionals who are specialists in medicines. In addition, although we have quite a few PharmDs the Clinical Pharmacist has still not been fully accepted in the government system and as such there are no posts. The minimum requirement is still the BPharm for practising pharmacists. In the Caribbean, Jamaica is one of the few countries in which pharmacy is self-regulating. You still have many countries that are grouped together in the category referred to as paramedical for registration and other regulatory matters. It also has to be noted that pharmacists themselves have not believed in their own expertise and been confident in taking up their rightful place among and beside other health professions, particularly physicians. Until there is a shift in mindset among pharmacists themselves we will not be treated seriously. This is the sad truth. But strides are being made and we trust that it will augur well for the future of pharmacy in the developing world.

Some kind of problem applies to Colombia.

Dear Mr. Ramesh

In my opinion, Pharmacy profession nowadays was not recognized because some pharmacy practitioners lack efforts on upholding total pharmaceutical care to their patients, which includes patient counseling on medications, proper utilization of prescriptions, and correct evaluation of alternative drug in the prevention, diagnosis, mitigation and treatment of diseases. However, I did not believe that it is not developing, because as we can see, compounding of drugs for example was being replaced by more convenient preparations. What we can do as pharmacists, is to set ourselves and our practice to Global Standards! God Bless!