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| Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai, the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) ; Dominique Jordan, President, International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Mr. Emeka Duru, Secretary PSN President, and two others after the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Glasgow, UK, which ended at the weekend. |
Chioma Umeha
Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai, the President of the
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) and Dominique Jordan, President,
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) have held a strategic meeting to
fashion out a roadmap for the development of pharmacy profession in African
continent, especially Nigeria.
The duo met when Yakasai visited Jordan to
congratulate him on his emergence as the President of FIP after the World
Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Glasgow, UK, which ended at
the weekend.
According to the PSN boss, the newly elected FIP
President invited him for a consolidation meeting to parley on how they could
contribute to the development of pharmacy profession in Nigeria in particular
and Africa in general.
LAGOS – Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai, the President of the
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) and Dominique Jordan, President,
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) have held a strategic meeting to
fashion out a roadmap for the development of pharmacy profession in African
continent, especially Nigeria.
The duo met when Yakasai visited Jordan to
congratulate him on his emergence as the President of FIP after the World
Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Glasgow, UK, which ended at
the weekend.
According to the PSN boss, the newly elected FIP
President invited him for a consolidation meeting to parley on how they could
contribute to the development of pharmacy profession in Nigeria in particular
and Africa in general.
The meeting was geared to emphasised training and
leadership development for innovations in disseminating new knowledge through
the identification of key competencies or skills sets and targeting special
interests in the different fields of pharmacy.
The congress was organised by the FIP Hospital
Pharmacy Section and the FIP Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The organisers said that the congress brought
together pharmacists from around the world to consider ways of extending the
role of pharmacists so that they can play a full part in ensuring that patients
and health systems, achieve full benefit from the medicines people take.
According to them, the goal of the congress was
very timely especially as the ‘one-size-fits-all approach is clearly failing many
patients around the globe for the pharmacological treatment of diseases.
Pharmacists are uniquely trained and qualified
healthcare professionals capable of personalising therapy for improving
patients’ outcomes.
Another feature of the august gathering was what
the organisers labelled, “Pre-congress Satellite on Biosimilars.”
According to them , Pre-congress Satellite on
Biosimilars which took place on Saturday is the science, regulation, practice
and education of follow-on biologic pharmaceuticals.
It was organised by the FIP Hospital Pharmacy
Section and the FIP Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Marianne Ivey (FIP
Hospital Pharmacy Section, USA) and Michael Ward (FIP Board of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Australia) Chairs.
Biologic pharmaceuticals are very targeted
medications that have made a major contribution to the clinical outcomes of
patients with challenging diseases and conditions.
These pharmaceuticals are very expensive and
competition from products that are biologically similar has the potential of
increasing patient access at a lower cost.
The complexity of the science and practice of
using these medications makes pharmacists’ education of these agents critical
to their appropriate use. This pre-congress satellite was expected to address
these areas with active learning opportunities for the audience.
Also, the organisers said that this year’s
congress in targeting special interests featured the 37th Global Pharmacy
Technicians’ Symposium on Partners in health. The symposium’s theme was
“Partners in health.” Discussions at the symposium focused on education programmes
and services that have evolved and served to define pharmacy technicians and
other pharmacy support workforce groups in a variety of contexts globally,
particularly as part of the global mid-level health workforce cadre.
The self-study learning activity was designed to
ensure that all participants understand vaccine-preventable diseases and the
role of pharmacists as vaccine advocates and administrators.
The learning modules presented in-depth
information on immunology and practice implementation and included real-life
case studies designed to help reinforce and evaluate participants’
understanding of key information and concepts.
On his part, Yakasai while announcing the YPG and
FIP’s Academic Pharmacy Section, FIPEd and the International Pharmaceutical
Students’ Federation (IPSF) inaugural leadership development workshop, said,
“Participants must not be older than 35 years and must be a member of FIP or
IPSF.”
He tasked young pharmacists with interest in
taking up future leadership roles within the YPG steering committee or being
involved with local or national YPG leadership activities to attend the
pre-congress workshop.
Yakasai assured that participants interested in
elections would be able to hear and ask questions about the specific roles and
responsibilities of the current YPG Steering Committee.
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