Dearth Of Pharmacists Threatens Hospitals In Kwara
IF there was a project the Kwara state government ever got rightly in the past five years of the regime of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, then it must be a quality health system.
Ahmed had ordered comprehensive renovation of five health centres across the existing three senatorial districts of the state with state of the art equipment installed at each of the hospitals.
Even critics of the government attested to the usefulness of the projects describing it as the peak of all the achievements of any administration worth its salt.
The development is however being considered as an addendum to the existing quality hospitals in the state, especially, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin.
The UITH recently carried out successful renal transplants and two open-heart surgeries. Besides, Kwara state under a tripartite arrangement with the Dutch Groups, Hygeia and PharmAccess has one of the best rural health insurance schemes in the country.
But despite these seeming impeccable health sector arrangements, an Achilles heels of the system had been identified and this remains, the dearth of pharmacists manning the state's owned hospitals.
Therefore the state's branch of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has urged the state government to declare emergency in its health sector until a reasonable number of pharmacists have been employed into the state's owned 30 healthcare facilities.
At present, 10 pharmacists are in the payroll of the state government and among the 10, two are due for retirement within the next one year.
But Dr Muideen Akorede, Senior Special Assistant to the state Governor Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed said the development, would be promptly addressed by the newly constituted Hospitals Management Board HMB).
According to the Chairman of the state's chapter of the PSN, Pharmacist Olayiwola Francis, no health care system could thrive without the full involvement of pharmacists.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Onilorin Of Ilorin Umar Sanda Yusuf Rotimi Samuel Olujide Yemi Sanni Abubakar Olusola Saraki Lai Gobir April 11 ASMAU PLAZA Mustapha Akanbi SWAN Igosun AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi Forgo Battery Company Limited Noah Yusuf General Hospital, Ilorin Musa Abdullahi Abdulfatah Ahmed Dauda Adeniran Adeshola Sango-UITH Road Yetunde Balogun Photo News Garba Dogo Emir Of Yashikira Clara Nwachukwu Babaloja-General Ilorin Central Mosque Alloy Chukwuemeka Olayinka Olaogun Maimunat Oloriegbe Yaru Galadima Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement Wahab Olasupo Egbewole Arca Santa Mubarak Oladosu Moremi High School Danladi Ibrahim Mashood SDP Bluenile Associates Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies Olatunji Ibrahim Peculiar Allowance Gbemisola Oguntimehin Ilorin Airport Opobiyi Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi Tanke Road Oke-Oyi LABTOP Neuropsychiatric Hospital Bolakale Ayo Abdullahi Samari Oke-Ode Elewu Harafat E. Mukadam Ojo Fadumila Kazeem Adekanye Aishat Mohammed Lawal Yusuf Amuda Gobir KWASEIC Ahmed Dankaya Halimah Perogi Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Gbenga Olawepo Abdulmutalib Shittu NNPP ASKOMP Stephen Fasakin Labour Party Raliat Elelu-Habeeb Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq Kayode Alabi Saka Adeyemo Saheed Alakoso Kolade Solagberu Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund

