Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) says more than 99 percent of private hospitals in Nigeria run unregistered pharmacies.
National Chairman and Secretary of the Adewale Oladigbolu and Ezeh Ambrose, in a statement, said those hospitals lacked pharmacists to superintend dispensing and counselling of drug-related endeavours.
The association was reacting to a statement by the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Tajudeen Sanusi, that private hospitals in Nigeria were the centres of unrestricted and unchecked creation of sub-professional cadres in healthcare.
The statement explained that this is contrary to the Poison and Pharmacy Act.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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