Ghanaian to serve on global pharmacy practice board

Accra, Sept. 4, GNA - Dr Alex Dodoo, President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, has been elected President of the Pharmacy Information Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).

By this appointment, Dr Dodoo becomes a member of the Board of Pharmacy Practice of FIP, the umbrella organisation for pharmacists across the globe.


A statement released in Accra on Thursday said the election results were released during the on-going World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences taking place in Basle, Switzerland. Twenty-eight Ghanaian pharmacists are attending the meeting. Dr Dodoo, also a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Director at the Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, University of Ghana, will serve a four-year term beginning this month. He takes over from Prof. Han de Gier of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands

The statement said: "This election is further evidence of the high regard Ghana has in the eyes of the international pharmaceutical community and provides the opportunity to improve the practice of pharmacy not just in the country but within the West Africa sub-region as a whole."