The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has canvassed a better remuneration for its members described as a pivot in the nation’s healthcare sector.

The PSN, which observed that its members are the largest employers of labour in the health sector via the establishment of pharmaceutical firms, said its members should be given a better recognition like their colleagues outside the country.

Besides, the group traced what it called high rate of brain drain among its members to alleged poor perquisites being given them in Nigeria by their employers warning that if the demand was not promptly met it could lead to the dearth of pharmacists in the country.

According to the local Chairman of the PFA, Abdulmajeed Oderinde Friday in Ilorin, “more needed to be done in terms of good remuneration for pharmacists, employment of more pharmacists to man the new hospitals being graded now by the Kwara state government.”