{"id":342554,"date":"2017-08-06T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=342554"},"modified":"2017-08-06T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:05:15","slug":"pharmaceutical-society-launches-10-year-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/pharmaceutical-society-launches-10-year-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical Society launches 10-year strategic plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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":"
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has launched a 10-year strategic plan to promote efficient use and access to affordable medicines. 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. It would additionally prepare pharmacists and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[3,7454],"yoast_head":"\n