Registrar/Chief Executive of the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria, Elijah Mohammed has said that the council is set to declare a state of emergency on hospital pharmacy practice across the country so as to improve the position of the pharmacist in health care delivery.
Mohammed who was represented by its Deputy Director (Pharmacy Practice), Peter Iliya said this during an event organised by the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, in commemoration of this year’s World Pharmacists Day.
He said “With what we see on the field in terms of hospital pharmaceutical practice, we need to declare a state of emergency. We believe with that, things can be better; we can still make pharmaceutical practice what it is supposed to be.
“About 60 per cent of health consumers consult pharmacists before accessing any form of medical care from anywhere else, giving the profession a prime position as far as health care delivery is concerned.”
He also noted that PCN is also working on modalities needed to enforce a national drug guideline so as to aid pharmacists on community practice to clamp down on illegal practitioners of the profession.
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