Governor Uba Sani has advised pharmacists to jealously guard their profession against quacks, in order to safeguard the public and to ensure a sound healthcare delivery system. The governor gave the advice at the public presentation of a book to mark the 70th birthday of Professor Ahmed Tijani Mora, a renown pharmacist, at Hotel 17…
(A pharmacist. Photo by the sun nigeria) A “dangerous depletion” of pharmacists in the Lagos State Ministry of Health has prompted the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Lagos State Branch to issue a strong warning, stating that the situation is already weakening drug regulation and creating opportunities for statutory violations in the state’s healthcare…
The Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Ekiti State Branch, Martins Alutundu, has lauded the efforts of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration to rid the country of fake and substandard drugs and sanitise the drug distribution system. Alutundu, in a statement titled, ‘Ekiti PSN lauds the bold steps of NAFDAC’, made…
Community pharmacists in Akwa Ibom State have raised the alarm over the spike in the cost of medications in Nigeria occasioned by what they described as a “depressed economy” and the rising cost of energy. The association also condemned the heavy reliance on imports of medications and active pharmaceutical ingredients from China and India, despite…
