By Joseph ETTA
Pharmacist in Calabar, Cross River State added colour to the event to commutate this year’s Pharmacist day by introducing Gospel band with singers followed by members of Nigeria Pharmacy council, Calabar branch joining to move around the streets of Calabar distributing health awareness leaflets.
Today September 25th is a day set aside every year Globally to mark “World Pharmacist Day”. This year’s Theme is:- SAFE AN EFFECTIVE MEDICINE FOR ALL. According to Pharmacist Obi Oyeka, the day is set aside to let people know about the Pharmacy and the services they render to the society and it’s relevant in the community.
Pharmacist Oyeka, who has practiced the profession for more than 40 years disclosed that the day is aimed at sanitizing the society on the need to use right professionals.
There is hazard people going through pratrimizy quacks” people go to patient drugs sellers who gives them four different drugs treating the same thing. When you take the drugs, the pain will go but there is a side effect, he noted that to every drug there is a side effect. Those who know that are cautious about it but to the roadside chemist, his major interest is the pain must go.
He pointed out that to every drug you used, there is curative but at a certain level it can be vital, which may lead to death.
The University of Life trained pharmacist disclosed that the pharmacist day is also meant to test for medicine rapid diagnostic kit, mark the program that the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated to be marked as the World Pharmacist Day.
He observed that one of the services rendered to the public today to mark the day is to let people know what sickness they are suffering from by giving them definite drugs for the treatment.
Oyeka who owns Bez Pharmaceutical, one of the leading pharmaceutical stores in Calabar, deliver free test for BP, Malaria RDT and Sugar (Fbs) to people living at Eta Agbor road and its environment and also to the student of the University of Calabar.
