Prof. Cyril Usifoh, President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has says more than 7,000 pharmacists emigrated from Nigeria in search of better practice environment abroad in the last two years.
Usifoh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said on Tuesday in Gombe that the issue of brain drain which remained one of the major challenges in the health sector needed serious attention in the interest of the well-being of Nigerians.
Usifoh said government needed to create the environment conducive for pharmacists to work to reverse the trend and to encourage pharmacists to stay and contribute to the development of the country.
“If you want to stop brain drain, you will create conditions to enable people not to go.
“Government should create the enabling environment that will prevent people from leaving, but to come here.
“I am confident that when the opportunities are there, you will have what we call brain gain; they will come back: we are here, we are not leaving,’’ he said.
Usifoh, a professor of Pharmacy said part of PSN’s activities as an association was to make Nigeria more self-sufficient and to improve the health sector.
On the society’s 96th annual conference holding in Gombe State, the president said the PSN was in the state to evaluate its works in the past one year and to strategise on ways to improve the health sector.
He noted that members and industrialists were working to partner with Gombe State government to harness opportunities that abound in the pharmaceutical industry in the state.
“We are planning to partner with the government, especially in its industrial park and to examine how pharmaceutical companies can possibly to set up outlets in the state,’’ he said.
The theme of the PSN 2023 conference is: “Pharmaceutical Practice: A pivot to universal health coverage in Nigeria,” he said.
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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