Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria Task Jonathan on Residency Training for Pharmacists, Nurses Date Posted: 24/Aug/2014 Register for Bls Class Against the background of the planned reforms of doctors’ residency training, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has advocated for a broad spectrum and total re-organisation of residency such that it includes new programmes. The PSN has also called for the creation of a management platform that would include all health professionals to be led by the permanent secretary or other skilled administrator so as to guarantee an unbiased output in the best interest of consumers of health in Nigeria. These were contained in an open letter from the President of the PSN, Olumide Akintayo to President Goodluck Jonathan. Akintayo in the letter called for the establishment of a new structure of Residency Training that inculcates all the various health professions in Nigeria. “Specifically, there is a need for residency programmes in pharmacy, laboratory science, nursing, radiography, physiotherapy and others to address the myriad of complexities that are emerging in public health,” he said. According to him, “the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Health Professional Alliance (a body encompassing the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), World Medical Association (WMA), International Federation of Nurses and Mid-Wives and International Federation of Physiotherapists) continue to assert with and responsibility that only collaborative efforts can boost healthcare delivery across the world.” Nigeria being a major player in the global arena, he reasoned the country definitely has little or no choice than to key into this progressive vision. Further, he said:”We strongly admonish that beneficiaries of the residency training at government expense from now on to be made to sign bonds to work in Nigerian federal health institutions for a specified period in addition to other commitments revolving around productivity. To prevent unbiased management of the health sector, he said, “We appeal that specific directives are given to the Federal Ministry of Health to create the platform of a representative committee of all health professionals which would be led by the permanent secretary or other skilled administrator to guarantee an unbiased output in the best interest of consumers of health in Nigeria.”
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 11:58:36 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015