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Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has accused the national authorities of apathy and favouritism successful the medication of the nation’s wellness sector.
It warned that the continued marginalisation of non-medical professionals could worsen disunity and inefficiency successful healthcare delivery.
At a pre-conference property briefing successful Lagos up of the Society’s 98th Annual National Conference (DABO 2025) scheduled to clasp successful Kano, PSN president, Ayuba Ibrahim, urged the national authorities to guarantee fairness and equity among each healthcare professionals.
He lamented that authorities policies and practices person consistently favoured doctors implicit different professionals, a concern helium said undermines harmony and weakens the full healthcare system.
The PSN president said the country’s wellness strategy indispensable reward competence alternatively than connections, stressing that pharmacists play an indispensable relation successful diligent attraction and merit commensurate payment and recognition.
Ibrahim decried the rising question of migration among pharmacists, revealing that implicit 8,200 pharmacists person failed to renew their licenses successful the past 5 years, galore having near Nigeria for amended opportunities abroad.
“The assemblage is losing endowment rapidly; PSN information shows that implicit 8,200 pharmacists person failed to renew their licenses successful the past 5 years, galore of them having migrated abroad.
The authorities indispensable code this exodus successful the nationalist interest,” helium stated.
Ibrahim besides condemned what helium described arsenic “institutional apathy and lopsidedness” successful remuneration and argumentation implementation, peculiarly the projected wage relativity betwixt the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) and the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS).
“We importune that this cannot stand, otherwise, it becomes meaningless to survey immoderate different wellness people isolated from medicine. The existing CBA with the national authorities is clear: our wages indispensable beryllium parity-based, not relativity-based. The PSN and JOHESU volition defy immoderate effort to entrench specified an immoral and unlawful policy,” helium said.
According to him, immoderate argumentation that entrenches wage disparity would discourage young radical from studying different wellness professions and endanger the sustainability of multidisciplinary collaboration successful the sector.
He further faulted the national government’s “selective approach” to healthcare development, urging it to transportation pharmacists on successful nationalist argumentation formulation and implementation.
Ibrahim besides criticised the constitution of “Universities of Medicine and Medical Sciences,” describing the conception arsenic discriminatory and unconstitutional since it excludes different captious wellness disciplines.
Highlighting upcoming events, the PSN President announced plans for the Society’s Centenary Celebration (1927–2027) and said the DABO 2025 Conference, themed “Pharmacy Forward: Building a Future-Ready Workforce for Performance, Collaboration and Transformation,” volition bring unneurotic policymakers, manufacture leaders, and improvement partners to illustration a caller way for pharmacy signifier successful Nigeria.
“This league is not conscionable different event, it is simply a question to physique a future-ready, collaborative, and impactful pharmacy profession,” helium said.
Present astatine the briefing were the nationalist president of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), Ezeh Ambrose Igwekamma and the treasurer of the Nigerian Academy of Pharmacy and erstwhile president of the PSN Lagos Branch, Sir Anthony Bola Oyawole.
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