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The Pharmaceutical
Society of Nigeria (PSN), Oyo State branch, has called on President Mohammadu
Buhari to reconstitute the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria (PCN) which was
recently dissolved alongside the boards of other parastatals. The chairman of the
society, Pharm Ishola Adeyinka, spoke yesterday in Ibadan on the occasion of
the 2015 World pharmacist Day with the theme” Pharmacist: Your Partners in
Health”.
The Nation report continues:
According
to him, practice in the sector has gotten to a most wretched level which
logically cannot afford another vacuum in terms of regulatory control. Adeyinka
said disciplinary procedures must be a continuous phenomenon on erring
Pharmacists or pharmaceutical companies.
“The
absence of PCN governing council in a strategic profession like ours boosts the
fake drug syndrome, albeit tragically. The situation in our profession is
replicated in some other healthcare professions which are now justifiably issuing
ultimatums.
“Other
issues like the accreditation of training facilities for pharmacists and
support staff in the pharmacy are almost jeopardized. The routine practice in
the area of monitoring and control are not in the best of health as it has also
been impossible to get council to strategize to boost efforts of the registry
of PCN,” he said
Adeyinka implored federal
government to halt the drift in the operational efficiency of the Pharmacists
Council of Nigeria by reconstituting its board now and subsequently invoking
the spirit of the law that provides for perpetual succession in the enabling
act.
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