Give us three years to get full-time pharmacists – Pharmacy Owners Assoc.

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Kwasi USA 9 years ago

I wonder if the council actually did research and due diligence before coming out with such policy. I would like the Council to bring to publish the number of registered pharmacy shops in Ghana as well as the number if certif ...
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I wonder if the council actually did research and due diligence before coming out with such policy. I would like the Council to bring to publish the number of registered pharmacy shops in Ghana as well as the number if certified pharmacist in Ghana. The Council should indicate where each of these pharmacist worked then . How many pharmacy shops are registered within a year, how many pharmacists graduated within a year. How many pharmacy shops are required base on Ghanaian Popution. I Think demand by pharmacy Council is unreasonable .
T'pau 9 years ago

Agreed! Due diligence must be carried out before coming out with the policy. The Pharmacy Council, upon proper due diligence would know the pharmacists-to-shops ratio in the country and could allow shop owners to solicit the ...
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Agreed! Due diligence must be carried out before coming out with the policy. The Pharmacy Council, upon proper due diligence would know the pharmacists-to-shops ratio in the country and could allow shop owners to solicit the services of part-time resident pharmacists for a certain period before giving them the ultimatum to employ full-time resident pharmacists in due course.
LAWLESS 9 years ago

One of the biggest problem in this country is that we have so many laws in theory never or effectively implemented.Structures and systems do not work in Ghana because many in position of responsibility are inherently corrupt ...
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One of the biggest problem in this country is that we have so many laws in theory never or effectively implemented.Structures and systems do not work in Ghana because many in position of responsibility are inherently corrupt and filthy greedy.Frankly speaking,there are major biting issues in the pharmaceutical industry of Ghana than merely licensure and regulation of pharmacist practice.Of course it is indeed a fact that we have very few pharmacists in this country.It is also an undeniable fact that most pharmacists in public institutions have their own private pharmacies in town registered in their names.Unfortunately,the lucrative drug industry is attracting a lot of business people most of whom don't even have any medical background.We have a lot of drug,chemical and pharmacy shops sprawling up at a very high rate by people without any medical or pharmacy background compounded by the few pharmacists who are quick to establish and license private pharmacies after some few years of work following graduation.What is available to business people in the lucrative drug industry is to look out for the few relatively young,inexperienced ones mostly in public institutions.But sooner or later they also establish their private pharmacies licensed in their name whiles still with public institutions creating a vicious,chronic cycle of shortage of certified professionals for the too many drug stores,chemical shops and pharmacies sprawling out.In deed majority are left frustrated when for instance they are fighting for an upgrading of a drug store or chemical shop into pharmacy because of acute shortage of pharmacists.Worse still is the fact that the pharmaceutical industry of Ghana is confronted with very serious problems because of poor regulation and monitoring.Most drug stores,chemical shops and pharmacies in particularly largely operate as clinics and hospitals especially in areas where clinics and prescribers are lacking.Most drug stores,chemical shops and pharmacies admit and treat cases sometimes very serious medical conditions.most have metamorphosed into doctors and now doing the work of doctors.They do laboratory screening,examine patients and prescribe treatment with impunity.Minor procedures including wound exploration,dressing,suturing, fracture mobilization,incision and drainage are done in drug stores and pharmacies.Though pharmacists have over side responsibility in ensuring rational prescription on the part of doctors and other prescribers,they routinely alter prescriptions and change drugs to suit their business.Prescriptions are poorly or improperly vetted because you mostly find dispensary assistants without a pharmacist in most pharmacies.In effect you have very serious drugs with potentially fatal site effects prescribed by unqualified persons served onto patients.Herbal products with fatal site effects not approved by the FDB are mostly sold in drug stores and pharmacies without authorization.Like most public institutions,the pharmacy council riddled with endemic corruption see these illegalities but turn a blind eye once a white enveloped packed with Ghana cedis is given out.Truth said Ghana have myriad of laws ranging from constitutional laws to laws by regulatory bodies like the Pharmacy Council and the Medical and Dental Council.These laws have been rendered malfunctional and useless in application because of reckless political sensationalism,nepotism,cronyism and endemic corruption.Systems and structures are not working and regulatory institutions are failing as a result.
joe 9 years ago

The law must be enforced no more double dipping.Having your certificate in three stores is greediness.Because of this loophole even doctors are not accorded respect by some pharmacists,they have money.They blame the governmen ...
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The law must be enforced no more double dipping.Having your certificate in three stores is greediness.Because of this loophole even doctors are not accorded respect by some pharmacists,they have money.They blame the government of shortage of drugs,meanwhile most are diverted to their privately owned stores.
koti 9 years ago

Get us facts right here pls, no pharmacist is allowed to register more than one shop. Besides what sortnof respect r u talking about. R u jealous DAT pharmacists have money than doctors? What about d illegal monies doctors al ...
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Get us facts right here pls, no pharmacist is allowed to register more than one shop. Besides what sortnof respect r u talking about. R u jealous DAT pharmacists have money than doctors? What about d illegal monies doctors also steal from poor patients in d hospitals. We pharmacists r not thieves like doctors. Give me a break.
joe 9 years ago

Oh MR. KOTI,you are a pharmacists thus why .I have two stores and besides i have friends in the industry so do not get me started it will not be fair to out some pharmacists on social media with all due respect let us keep it ...
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Oh MR. KOTI,you are a pharmacists thus why .I have two stores and besides i have friends in the industry so do not get me started it will not be fair to out some pharmacists on social media with all due respect let us keep it as that. I am not jealous as you as perceived ,i employ them.
koti 9 years ago

Hmmmmm

Hmmmmm
Adam. 9 years ago

Ghana needs to get out of this cycle of evil in which no policies work. This is the cause of unemployment in the country and cause of all corruption.

Ghana needs to get out of this cycle of evil in which no policies work. This is the cause of unemployment in the country and cause of all corruption.
ADE 9 years ago

WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS? ANYONE CAN TELL THE GOVT OR ITS AGENT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND NOT WHAT THE IS WANTS? THE BOARD SHOULD PUT IT'S FOOT DOWN AND THE RIGHT THING BE DONE.

WHAT NONSENSE IS THIS? ANYONE CAN TELL THE GOVT OR ITS AGENT WHAT THEY WANT TO DO AND NOT WHAT THE IS WANTS? THE BOARD SHOULD PUT IT'S FOOT DOWN AND THE RIGHT THING BE DONE.
Odikro 9 years ago

This is asking the Pharmacy Council to give the Association 3 years to kill as many people as they possibly can, just so they can stay in business. Why don't they come together and form cooperatives so they can hire qualified ...
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This is asking the Pharmacy Council to give the Association 3 years to kill as many people as they possibly can, just so they can stay in business. Why don't they come together and form cooperatives so they can hire qualified pharmacists?

Justin 9 years ago

please private hospitals, clinics , maternity homes and even govt health centers own pharmacies that are supposed to be supprinted by pharmacist so pharmacy council don't regulate only pharmacist but pharmacy practice

please private hospitals, clinics , maternity homes and even govt health centers own pharmacies that are supposed to be supprinted by pharmacist so pharmacy council don't regulate only pharmacist but pharmacy practice
Earl Jones 9 years ago

As Ghana goes from a low income to a middle income country, it is no longer acceptable to have rogue traders engaged in any business where they are not qualified to do so. We are putting the lives of Ghanaians at risk by allo ...
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As Ghana goes from a low income to a middle income country, it is no longer acceptable to have rogue traders engaged in any business where they are not qualified to do so. We are putting the lives of Ghanaians at risk by allowing unqualified persons, rogue traders, to carry out work they are not trained to do.
Other professionals must learn from others such as the pharmacists, lawyers, nurses, doctors etc who will not allow unqualified persons to render services to the public.

The public and the professions must be protected against rogue trading.

All professions in Ghana including teachers must ensure they have a professional code of conduct with each registrant required to carry a verifiable PIN number before they can operate.

The next Frontier has to be engineering and technology. There are so many rogue traders in the system causing so much untold damage.
The collapse of the mailcom building is a classic example of shoddy work that caused loss of lives.
Every profession in Ghana must have a regulatory body able to enforce safe practices and high degree of quality in workmanship.

In our universities, all lecturer must have a teaching qualification of a sort; Post graduate certificate in education at the minimum.

We have enough qualified teachers. No person should be allowed near the classroom without the requisite teaching qualification.

No extension should be granted to the pharmacy owners. There are enough pharmacists in the system against an over supply of pharmacy outlets. This discrepancy must me corrected. Inevitably, some pharmacy outlets must now close.

No bulgings should be collapsing or bridges washed away because of rogue trading. We have enough qualified personel in every area of public services in Ghana.
ghanani 9 years ago

they just extort money from people

they just extort money from people
KWAME SIKA 9 years ago

Poor you people instead of talking about the issues you DOC AND PHARM are turning the thing into a turf war.What does the law say?Can some one go to a doctor and request for his cert to open a clinic without the doctor being ...
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Poor you people instead of talking about the issues you DOC AND PHARM are turning the thing into a turf war.What does the law say?Can some one go to a doctor and request for his cert to open a clinic without the doctor being present?,Can someone ask a lawyer for his cert to open alegal chambers without the presence of the lawyer ?Good People Judge this.This practice of individuals selling medicines to the public like cassava in makola must stop. It is not in the public's interest!
T'pau 9 years ago

I agree with you 100% @Kwame Sika. Every chemist shop MUST have a RESIDENT pharmacists, who allocates 100% of his/her working-time ONLY at that one particular chemist shop.

I agree with you 100% @Kwame Sika. Every chemist shop MUST have a RESIDENT pharmacists, who allocates 100% of his/her working-time ONLY at that one particular chemist shop.
T'pau 9 years ago

In addition, the pharmacists have the right to work other jobs outside the working hours of their principal place of occupation.

In addition, the pharmacists have the right to work other jobs outside the working hours of their principal place of occupation.
Kwasi USA 9 years ago

The problem about we Ghanaians are that, everybody thinks she/he is knowledgeable. If you are to implement policy , what needs to be done before it implementation? Who gave the pharmacy shops lincense to operate. Know one is ...
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The problem about we Ghanaians are that, everybody thinks she/he is knowledgeable. If you are to implement policy , what needs to be done before it implementation? Who gave the pharmacy shops lincense to operate. Know one is disputing the fact that pharmacy shop needs permanent pharmacist. This is the practice here in the developed world, and that is the ideal situation becuase it a matter of precious life. However , looking at ghanaian case in question, the Council cannot do . When for example when Bank of Ghana increase it minimum Capital requirement to universal banks, savings and loans and micro Finance institution , the existing ones were given couple of years to comply. Gradually the implementation became effect. That is how you deal with human institution . it does who doesn't know anything talk most in Ghana .
TINA, USA 9 years ago

I think what the association is requesting for, is the reasonable thing for them to do. When these pharmacy shops are closed down, it is the citizens who will suffer most. Ghana does not have enough pharmacists, so to impleme ...
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I think what the association is requesting for, is the reasonable thing for them to do. When these pharmacy shops are closed down, it is the citizens who will suffer most. Ghana does not have enough pharmacists, so to implement such a law will have adverse effect on the health system. If I am getting it right, is the pharmacist doing more than one job the problem, or the country not having enough pharmacist to do the job. Everywhere in the western world, we have professionals doing more than one job, so the pharmacy council should do things right and leave Pharmacists alone . It is rather counter productive to restrict people from doing more than one job. Citizens should be allowed to do as many jobs as they can, only if one is not taking two government appointments at the same time.
TL 9 years ago

Why should Ghana allow poor kids these great jobs? The poor will spend recklessly.

Why should Ghana allow poor kids these great jobs? The poor will spend recklessly.
Kwadzo USA 9 years ago

That council is not serious. Given the shortages of pharmacists in Ghana they have put impediments unpon impediment in the way of hundreds of excellent USA, Canadian and United Kindom trained Ghanaian pharmacists wanting to g ...
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That council is not serious. Given the shortages of pharmacists in Ghana they have put impediments unpon impediment in the way of hundreds of excellent USA, Canadian and United Kindom trained Ghanaian pharmacists wanting to get licensed in Ghana.
It is as though they want to compete with the USA on pharmacy practice.
Where do they want the Shop Owners to go and uproot the pharmacist to employ full time? It is the same 'skin pain', people with know and money wanting to return home to help society and burueacrats have other ideas who can and who cannot. While fellow country men suffer. The minister of Health is not doing his or her job.The oversight of thta Council is lacking. And they incidence CONFLICT OF INTEREST; Council members being owners of Pharmacy Shops and then regulating themselves????
God save Our Homeland Ghana!

pharmacy council staff 9 years ago

The sad thing is that there are pharmacies owned by staff of pharmacy council that flouts this directive with impunity.

The sad thing is that there are pharmacies owned by staff of pharmacy council that flouts this directive with impunity.

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