The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has launched a 10-year strategic plan to promote efficient use and access to affordable medicines.<\/p>\n
The plan seeks to maintain high standards of patient-centred pharmacy practice, strengthen local manufacturing and supply chain management and equitable distribution of pharmacists across the regions and districts.<\/p>\n
It would additionally prepare pharmacists and pharmacy graduates to meet emerging national pharmaceutical needs.<\/p>\n
Mr. Kwaku Agyeman Manu, the Health Minister, launched the plan at this year\u2019s annual conference of the Society, underway at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.<\/p>\n
It envisages that within the next decade, every healthcare facility would have a pharmacist dispensing prescription medication at all times and every pharmaceutical outlet properly regulated, in the interest of the patient.<\/p>\n
Under the plan, steps would be taken to ensure that pharmacists in different areas of practice are well trained and resourced to efficiently perform and promote even distribution of pharmacies.<\/p>\n
Marketing of pharmaceutical products would also be done by qualified professionals in ethical manner.<\/p>\n
Besides, every patient attending hospital would be counseled by a pharmacist on how to take their medication.<\/p>\n
The PSGH was founded in 1935 and it is the only professional body for pharmacists registered under the Professional Bodies Decree, 1973 (NRCD 143).<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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