The National Chairman, Association of Community Pharmacists’ of Nigeria, Mr Samuel Adekola, has urged the Federal Government to curb quackery in the country’s health sector. Adekola, in a statement on Thursday, said the ACPN frowned at the idea of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors Licence holders handling family planning services.“This absurdity is grounded on the erroneous belief that these PPMVL holders have enough numbers to service the rural communities in Nigeria with a presumed competence coefficient that will drive success stories in our decaying and collapsing Health System.
He urged the federal ministry of health and the international NGOs to engage the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria to curb quackery in the health sector.
Today as it stands, any plot or scheme to involve untrained hands in the sale and dispensing of high-grade medicines like steroidal preparations under the hypocrisy of accessibility to health or some other availability expediencies to provide unprofessionally inclined services to consumers of health will only make them more vulnerable to morbidity and mortality which of course aggravates our well known negative health indices.
“A Government that seeks to redress the damage inflicted on the image of our presently rated 187 out of 191 health systems globally should know this cannot be a route to ameliorating the permanent disorders and chaos in our health care sector,” Adekola said.
source: MedicalWorldNigeria
