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.
Iyeru Grammar School Senior Ibrahim Suleiman Amoyo Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed Arik Special Adviser On Digital Innovation Aisha Ahman Pategi Amada Jidda IHS Towers Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa Suleiman Mora Omar Tafida Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan Oke-Kura KWSUED KW-GIS Islamiya Abdulraheem 08001000100 Abdulfatai Baakini Peter Amogbonjaye Moses Rahman Popoola Monkey Pox Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory Alfa Modibbo Belgore Moshood Bakare Saidu Yaro Musa Lanre Issa Onilu Kwara University Of Education Kwara State Fish Farmers Association Aminat Ahmed Durosinlohun Atiku Amina El-Imam LEAH Charity Foundation Olofa Of Offa Kwara 2019 April 11 Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede Fatai Olodo Segun Ogunsola M.Y. Abdulrahaman Ibrahim Abikan Katibi Ibraheem Adeola Yusuf Lawal Leke Ogungbe Yusuf Amuda Abubakar Towoju Goodluck Jonathan COVID Ahmad Lawan Adekunle David Dunmade Ayobola Ipinlaiye Bureau Of Lands Kamaldeen Gambari Opaleke Bukola Iyabo Medview Airlines Falokun-Oja Olatunji Ayeni Ibrahim Akaje Danladi Isau Yusuf Arowosaye Unilorin Tunji Arosanyin Dan Iya Of Ilorin Siraj Oyewale Press Release Anilelerin Mashood Dauda Oni Adebayo Bello Abubakar Hassan Saliu George Innih Ilorin Talaka Parapo Yusuf Ali Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi Saka Abimbola Isau ANCOPPS

