Provision of adequate healthcare, a challenge to govt – Akintayo, PSN president

Nigerian pharmacists and other stakeholders in the health sector joined in the global celebration of World Pharmacists Day, last week Friday. Olumide Akintayo, President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) who during the occasion addressed myriads of issues that impinge on Good Pharmacy Practice called on government to reconstitute the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) which was recently dissolved alongside the boards of other parastatals. CHIOMA UMEHA (HEALTH EDITOR) provides the excerpts: Why is access to medicine critical in health care practice? Health is a fundamental human right; indispensable for the exercise of many other rights in particular, the rights to development and necessary for living a life of dignity. From a human right perspective, access to medicines is intrinsically linked with the principles of equity, non-discrimination, transparency, participation, and accountability. For this reason key issues related to access to medicines must be taken into accoun