Emerging pharmacy services; Recommendations for emergency care of COVID-19 pandemic in low and middle-income countries.

The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) has been declared as Pandemic by the World Health Organization and now become a global health emergency. Low and Middle income-countries lack standard pharmacy services in terms of staff, education, training, pharmaceutical care, research, and practice. The literature aimed to provide emerging pharmacy services and recommend it to be implemented in low and middle-income countries. Currently, pharmacies were easily accessible sites by the community, a trained staff under the guidance of pharmacist can be helpful for the management of visiting customers. In the surge of disease, pharmacists proved themselves as a frontline defense for the community by significant contribution in identifying, reporting, and managing COVID-19 patients through pharmaceutical care services at the community level, hospital/clinical level, and through Tele-pharmaceutical services.