Liberia’s Vice President Joseph N. Boakai, Sr., has called for the harmonization of pharmacy education and regulation in the West Africa sub-region to avert threats posed by these discrepancies.
Speaking at the 22nd Annual General Meeting and Scientific Symposium and 52nd Council Meeting of the West African Post-Graduate College of Pharmacists (WACPC) which closed Friday, Boakai emphasized that pharmacy has been placed on the back burner due to limited education, thus posing severe threats to the health sector of the sub-region.
Vice President Boakai said there is abundant evidence to demonstrate the harmful effects of deregulation of drugs in the sub-region, and noted that “in this era of increasing interdependence, common border migration, globalization and the rationalization of our economic communities, the vital sectors of our respective national conditions need to be synchronized.”
He said if the military can respond to threats posed to the sub-region by a member-state as evidenced in the ECOMOG operation in the 1990s in Liberia, then the harmonization of pharmacy education leads to coherent standards that are vital not only to development of a member-state, but the sub-region.
“This is why we in the sub-region should undertake a comprehensive pharmacy education that takes into account common standards, curricula, instructional accreditation, ethical clinical research and systematic training. These are crucial fundamental pre-requisites that ultimately promote the harmonization of pharmacy education in the West African sub-region,” Vice President Boakai further emphasized.
The Liberian Vice President described the convening of the WACPC symposium in Liberia, as a giant step in complementing previous attempts by other stakeholders to help the post-war country’s ailing health sector.
Source African Press Agency
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