Dearth Of Pharmacists Threatens Hospitals In Kwara

Date: 2015-09-12

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.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Cornelius Adebayo     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Elekoyangan     Flights To Ilorin     Old Oyo     Kubra Kazum     Ita-Ore     Olokoba Sulyman     Muhammadu Gobir     Olawuyi     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Mohammed Halidu     SWAN     First Lady     Cassava Growers\' Association     Bukola Ajikobi     Kuliyan Geri     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Dan-Kazeem     Bolakale Kawu     Riskat Opakunle     KWASIEC     Ogbondoroko     CKNG     IQRA College     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Adesoye College     Kwara Hotel     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Kawu     Funmilayo Oniwa     Pius Abioje     A.O. Belgore     Temitope Ogunbanke     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Omupo     Muritala Awodun     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Haliru Dantoro     Sherif Shagaya     Wahab Abayawo     KWATMA     Yusuf Badmus     Oba Abdulrahim     Mohammed Ibrahim     Nigerian Correctional Service     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Dunmade     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     ARMTI     Chikanda     New Nigeria People’s Party     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Oniyangi     Aliyu Muyideen     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Fatimat Saliu     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Ahmed     Alabere     Taofeek Sanusi     Gbemi Saraki     Saka Onimago     Village Alive Development Association     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Ibrahim Mohammed     John Mayokun Dada     Kolawole Bashirat     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Jimba Babatunde     Zara Umar    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Chief Imam Of Offa     Tunji Olawuyi     Abiodun Oyedepo     Okeose Christian Cementary     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Abraysports FC     Mohammed Abduraheem     Naira Redesign     Lawal Jimoh     Oke Sunna     Adanla-Irese     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Saliu Tunde Bello     Bello Oyedepo     07039448763     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Radio SBS     Samuel Adaramola     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Olaiya Zuberu     Ahmed Bayero     Okedare     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Lai Mohammed     Folashade Omoniyi     Joseph Offorjama     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Segun Olawoyin     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Tsado Manman     Jelili Yusuf     Awodun     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Igosun     Sa\'adu Salahu     KwaraLearn     Ile Arugbo     Olabanji Orilonishe     Razak Atunwa     Lai Gobir     V.O. Abioye     Jimba Babatunde     Baruba     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Ebola     Haleeman Salman     Kwara State Polytechnic     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Hassan Saliu     ER-KANG     Adamu Attah     SAPZ Project     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Lanre Jimoh     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Saheed Akinwumi     Ola Falade     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Abubakar Aliagan     Dagbalodo     Maryam Ado Bayero     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Segun Abifarin     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Asa     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Sardauna     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Moshood Mustapha     Col. Taiwo     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Halidu Danbaba