₦airaland Forum

Danandosky:
I don't think you know anything about Pharmacists, according to u, pharmacist are not licenced to give injection in Nigeria, a country with a chaotic health system but quacks, CHEWs, boys that served their oga at head bridge can give injections... Is like you are still in the stone age, pharmacist are well trained, clinical pharmacist are integral part of the health care team in developed countries, and can counter doctors prescriptions if deemed to be inappropriate, in fact doctors seek their input in many situations of drug therapy.... There are consultant pharmacists in Nigeria for your information...and to add to this, remove the pharmacy department from any teaching hospital and see if the facility can generate any reasonable revenue again...over 80% of patients that come to the hospital go home with one medication or another.... For u to even say anybody that understand the shelf drug arrangement can do the work of the pharmacist shows that you are myopic in ur thought... Know that any mistake a pharmacist make can be deadly, like giving the wrong drug, not explaining side effects, wrong dosing, etc

There are lots of cases of kidney failure and liver damage in the country because majority of the people who handle and dispense drugs are non pharmacist and lack the necessary knowledge, dey give wrong drugs, at wrong doses, without even knowing what the cause of the condition is... leading to serious organ damage... especially with painkillers, antibiotics.... U better ask questions or better still, do your research well before coming to talk in public space like someone who's not enlightened

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And wht is special about being a consultant?

I insist and from a place of decades of experience in the Nigerian health sector that a pharmacist can neither prescribe nor diagnose.

I dont understand the dribble about abroad and co when the topic is about Nigerian Pahrmacy profession.

In federal Teavhing hospital which is the apex of healthcare in the public setting, a pharmacist cannot prescribe drugs. And I reiterate that even I'm some facilities, they aren't allowed to swap brands.

So if the role is to dispense, what then is special.about it of the cleaner who has been in the outlet for years also knows where the drugs are.

Even in some hospitals, the pharmacist doesn't interface with patients, they basically dispense through a pigeonhole.

Segzy19:
That was so because of the poor system in Nigeria.
Ideally, a pharmacist shouldn't diagnose, prescribe or administer treatment to you....but in Nigeria anything goes. Nurse act like doctors, doctors want to do the work of everybody, pharmacists diagnose and administer treatments...

Anyway, thank God that you were bailed out sha

When you guys say things like this with conviction, I wonder how come. There are list of disease a pharmacist can diagnose and prescribed medication or lifestyle changes for

onyxo76:
just like going to the man selling kickstarter instead of visiting your rewire abi? the day your pharm go give you wrong drug na that day you go know adverse drug reactions dey.

Do you know how many prescription errors pharmacist correct in the hospital by medical doctors with years of practice and degree. That is why you must see your pharmacist after every prescription

You must have had the symptoms for 2 days before it became that critical. Don't be so careless next time. Assuming the pharmacist had close that night before 10pm you might have been regretting now from the land of your ancestors. CARELESSNESS DOES NOT PAY

Basic123:
The job description and trainings are different bro.

Health goes beyond just DRUGS

Yes including surgery

Murketeer:
lol … so you want to teach a Pharmacist about adverse drug reactions?… even Physicians keep pharmacists close as friends … Ignorance go kill una finish

my take is...just stay within the limits of your profession...the day one incident happens, you go explain tire.

geunik:
Do you know how many prescription pharmacist correct in the hospital by medical doctors with years of practice and degree. That is why you must see your pharmacist after every prescription

I don't have a problem with seeing the pharmacist for checking out the prescription, but a pharmacist giving injection which is basically a nursing procedure or giving patient blood transfusion in his shop is what I fear.

Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases out there. It almost took my last toddler away yesterday, when her mother called me I was in middle of a meeting at work, I walked out without permission when I got the call. I keep praying on the wheel till I got home and rush her to the hospital, she was placed in several injections after blood test. This a girl watching cartoons alone in her room before I left for work, on getting to her room her mum saw her fainted on the floor unmovable. I thank God now she's stable .

Ginger and garlic.

DeltaBachelor:
Please can I know what you are taking ?

RetroviralS:
I remember having a very serious bout of malaria. The fever was so high I had to rush to a pharmacist around 10 pm.

Honestly, if not for the injections and drugs I got that night, I don’t know what would have happened. That moment reminded me how pharmacists are often the unsung heroes we run to when sickness strikes.

From malaria drugs to HIV treatment, they stand between sickness and recovery, making sure we get the right medication and advice when we need it most.

Today, on World Pharmacist Day, we at Retroviral Solutions celebrate these quiet but powerful hands of healthcare.

👉 Have you ever had a pharmacist make you feel better with their advice, care, or even just a kind word?

Share your story.

The problem is that people don't treat it early or start with ineffective medication

Start early n use the right medication..follow the dosage religiously n you should feel better from day3

Lies!

geunik:
When you guys say things like this with conviction, I wonder how come. There are list of disease a pharmacist can diagnose and prescribed medication or lifestyle changes for

You have just corroborated what I said earlier
What you have described isn't a normal situation...

Murketeer:
Have you ever been to a Nigerian hospital where you are extremely sick… maybe just Malaria … it looks like you are dieing … but there’s no single doctor on ground to attend to you ?… Maybe you can see why a lot of patients prefer to have access to other health professionals… other than doctors alone … or you think it’s only doctors that can diagnose malaria

Segzy19:
You have just corroborated what I said earlier
What you have described isn't a normal situation...

So what do you expect the patients to do ?… they should die because they have to see a Doctor first for simple cases even when a Doctor is no where to be found ?… This is not a normal country where things work the way they are supposed to work .. better take care of your self

creolehunt:
Are pharmacists even licensed to give injections? Please do not ever play with your health, even the smallest of mistakes can be disastrous.

Smh.

Ordinary people even those without formal education inject themselves insulin yet you ask yourself if a Doctor of Pharmacy can give injection. It shows that you need more enlightenment about the roles of Pharmacists.

Happy World Pharmacists Day to all Pharmacists. Please keep giving your best as the custodian of the wealth and health of the world.

All arguments done ......

The truth :

The normal protocol or procedures to obtain health care by an ailing individual in Nigeria has become so difficult and unaffordable due to our bad government.

Sickness is life threatening.....nd a sick person only wants to be fine.

When a sick person visits a government hospital (which is believed to be the most affordable), there are numerous patients waiting to be attended to too. This alone is frustrating to the sick person.

If the patient decides to go to a private hospital, mehhnn....,he/she has to be ready to spend so much .....nd what if he/she cannot afford this at that time?

This is where Pharmacist, Lab Scientists, RNs, etc who are very good medically come in. ..The patients run to them , not the other way round...nd most times just like OP stated, they get well.

When you are sick of something nd u don't have much funds, you will be praying for God to use anyone, including chew to heal you.

But one thing is this , if anything sups on the process of treatment/administration....u the administrator go explain taya.

Love800:
I have not fallen ill of malaria dis year. Let me see whether it will reach ending of dis year, so i can confirm whether the stuff am taking is for real and sure!

you no go like share the name

Thanks for this body of information.
So many so called educated persons don't know that the pharmacy profession has evolved to a more clinical basics.

geunik:
A little education
Pharmacist with special training can give injection involving vaccine in a standard premises. Diabetes patients inject themselves. Giving most type of injection must be in a standard hospital so medical doctors cannot even give injection in their homes with their training.
Pharmacist in hospital have a lot to do. Their job span more than just dispensing medication. They counsel their patients using their prescription to avoid drug drug interactions and drug food interaction and also explain signs and symptoms related to side effects of drugs and what to look out for during treatment. In most cases, they can send a patient back with their prescription to their medical doctor to change their medication when they realise there is a major error in dose, drug, or incompatibility of the prescription. For example when a media doctor make an error prescribing Diclofenac 100 mg tablet for a chronic ulcer patient, it is the duty of the pharmacist to send the patient back for alternative solution from the medical doctor. The pharmacist in most cases suggest the better alternative to the medical doctor.
If you being your prescription, a pharmacist has all the right to give the brand that is appropriate as long as it contains the same active ingredient. The world health organisation frown at medical doctors fixing brands to products. This is common when they are trying to sell off a particular brand from a company.
You don't know the pharmacist now has the freedom to diagnose and prescribed for minor ailments in community pharmacy.
In your mind, you now have a hierarchy and pharmacist are the least. Well, pharmacist are not bother with hierarchy but what they bring to the table

creolehunt:
Are pharmacists even licensed to give injections? Please do not ever play with your health, even the smallest of mistakes can be disastrous.

That said, if you walk into any Federal Teaching Hospital today, you'd find that Pharmacy is probably the most useless department amongst the clinical. They are basically dispensers and the task they carry out can easily be performed by anyone who has same access to the doctors prescriptions and knows his way around the shelves of medications. Even the porters assisting the pharmacists, sometimes step in to assist.

In some, Pharmacists aren't even allowed to swap a brand of prescription let alone prescribe by themselves.

In the scheme of things, the hierarchy is Doctors, Nurses, Lab Scientists, before pharmacists and co

Who dey yarn this dust.

nairalanda1:
I know they ain't , just correcting you that they just dispense drugs.

I work in medicine by the by, not a pharmacist though.

I wasn't the one who said that, though.

The Pharmacy profession is the most versatile in the health Field.

A clinical pharmacist has the requisite knowledge and professional backing to diagnose and treat commonly encountered disease conditions.

The Hospital Pharmacy is not what defines the Pharmacy profession. The political structure in the hospital that tends to limit the pharmacy potential will in the next two decades be a thing of the past.

There is the Hospital Pharmacy, The industrial pharmacy and Community Practice, that allows for Clinical pharmacist who obtained the Doctor of Pharmacy degree to diagnose and treat. That was why Medical doctors were against the Doctor of Pharmacy Degree, but it has come to stay.

creolehunt:
And wht is special about being a consultant?

I insist and from a place of decades of experience in the Nigerian health sector that a pharmacist can neither prescribe nor diagnose.

I dont understand the dribble about abroad and co when the topic is about Nigerian Pahrmacy profession.

In federal Teavhing hospital which is the apex of healthcare in the public setting, a pharmacist cannot prescribe drugs. And I reiterate that even I'm some facilities, they aren't allowed to swap brands.

So if the role is to dispense, what then is special.about it of the cleaner who has been in the outlet for years also knows where the drugs are.

Even in some hospitals, the pharmacist doesn't interface with patients, they basically dispense through a pigeonhole.

Is it not odd that after “decades in the health sector,” you claimed, you still don’t know the difference between a cleaner handing you a box and a pharmacist safeguarding your life? That explains a lot of your kinda person.

1️⃣ “What’s special about being a consultant?”
The same thing that’s special about a consultant physician vs. a ward attendant with 20 years of experience pushing stretchers. Depth of expertise, authority in decision-making, and responsibility for outcomes. A Consultant Pharmacist is the highest level of medicine expertise — specializing in clinical pharmacology, oncology, cardiology, infectious diseases, and more. They optimize therapy, prevent drug interactions, lead antimicrobial stewardship, and literally save hospitals billions in drug wastage and resistance control.

2️⃣ “Pharmacists can’t prescribe or diagnose.”
Wrong and lazy. Pharmacists don’t claim to replace doctors — but prescription authority exists in Nigeria in structured forms (e.g., community pharmacists handle minor ailments, contraceptives, OTCs, and substitutions). Abroad matters because it’s the direction Nigeria is going — vaccination, prescribing under protocols, collaborative drug therapy management. You don’t freeze progress just because your knowledge is stuck in the 1980 and 90s.

3️⃣ “In federal teaching hospitals they only dispense through a pigeonhole.”
And whose fault is that? The system that underutilizes pharmacists. Why do you think doctors are even japaing. Even in those same hospitals, doctors will call pharmacy for dose adjustments, drug shortages, interactions, and parenteral nutrition advice. If you think pharmacists are “pigeonhole dispensers,” it’s because you’ve only ever looked through the pigeonhole instead of stepping into a clinical ward round. Hope you can see the holes in your limited knowledge and the only reference you keep giving is a particular hospital.

4️⃣ “What’s special if a cleaner knows where drugs are?”
Knowing a drug’s location ≠ knowing its pharmacokinetics, interactions, contraindications, therapeutic monitoring, renal/hepatic dosing, side-effect profile, and cost-effective substitution. By that logic, the cook in your house knows where the pepper is, so he’s automatically a consultant nutritionist? Please.

Bottom line: Pharmacy is science, safety, and strategy. If pharmacists were just “dispensers,” WHO, NAFDAC, PCN, FIP, and every modern health system wouldn’t fight to expand their roles. The fact that you can’t see the value doesn’t make it absent — it only exposes the limits of your understanding, ho upgrade your myopic thinking.

Murketeer:
So what do you expect the patients to do ?… they should die because they have to see a Doctor first for simple cases even when a Doctor is no where to be found ?… This is not a normal country where things work the way they are supposed to work .. better take care of your self

Abi oooo
I'm having severe headache, I see pharmacy wey go give me first aide treatment, you talk sey make I go queue waiting for Dr to be available

Its ginger and garlic.

Teeroyzimma:
you no go like share the name

creolehunt:
Are pharmacists even licensed to give injections? Please do not ever play with your health, even the smallest of mistakes can be disastrous.

That said, if you walk into any Federal Teaching Hospital today, you'd find that Pharmacy is probably the most useless department amongst the clinical. They are basically dispensers and the task they carry out can easily be performed by anyone who has same access to the doctors prescriptions and knows his way around the shelves of medications. Even the porters assisting the pharmacists, sometimes step in to assist.

In some, Pharmacists aren't even allowed to swap a brand of prescription let alone prescribe by themselves.

In the scheme of things, the hierarchy is Doctors, Nurses, Lab Scientists, before pharmacists and co

I wish they comprehend, they keep risking their lives,pharmacist injecting you,what if he or she punctured your sciatic nerve?that's how you would have become paralysed for life,we hate doing the right in this country, always looking for shortcuts.

Did he say, it was the Pharmacist that injected him. What most Pharmacist do in Community Pharmacy is to Diagnose and Prescribe. It is the nurses there that inject.

Even at that, pharmacist are now taking special courses that certifies them to carry out vaccination in their premises.

Some of you know nothing about the Pharmacy profession you just come here and spue ignorance.

Yong4ever:
I wish they comprehend, they keep risking their lives,pharmacist injecting you,what if he or she punctured your sciatic nerve?that's how you would have become paralysed for life,we hate doing the right in this country, always looking for shortcuts.

Love800:
Ginger and garlic.

Okay. Thank you

Alright.

DeltaBachelor:
Okay. Thank you

Pharmacy is the most versatile profession in the health sector and that has allowed for its evolution.
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‎Currently there are Diagnostic tests that can be carried out by pharmacists in their premises such as the Rapid Malaria test.
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‎There are also injections that Pharmacists can administer.
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‎There are three major areas of Pharmacy practice: You have Industrial Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy and Hospital Pharmacy. What you see in certain hospitals is not a reflection of the pharmacy profession.
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‎Most of the health workers only see pharmacy from the lens of hospital pharmacy, but pharmacy is beyond that and it's evolving.
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‎Even in hospital pharmacy, it is the pharmacist that double-checks for accuracy in dosage and regimen of prescription. As they are the drug expert.
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‎They also provide patients with information on how medications should be taken, and side effects patient should expect. Also medications and foods they shouldn't take with certain medications.
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‎They are also incharge of the Drug management and logistics in the hospital. From quality control to budget e.t.c It is the pharmacist that is actually involved in the Business of the Health Business as they are also thought entrepreneurship while in Pharmacy School and that is while they are more passionate about owning their own Pharmacy premise than working in hospital.
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‎They also Compound medications in Hospital Pharmacies.
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‎Let me stop here.

‎Let me not talk about Industry or even community Pharmacy practice.

creolehunt:
Are pharmacists even licensed to give injections? Please do not ever play with your health, even the smallest of mistakes can be disastrous.

That said, if you walk into any Federal Teaching Hospital today, you'd find that Pharmacy is probably the most useless department amongst the clinical. They are basically dispensers and the task they carry out can easily be performed by anyone who has same access to the doctors prescriptions and knows his way around the shelves of medications. Even the porters assisting the pharmacists, sometimes step in to assist.

In some, Pharmacists aren't even allowed to swap a brand of prescription let alone prescribe by themselves.

In the scheme of things, the hierarchy is Doctors, Nurses, Lab Scientists, before pharmacists and co

Sickness never hold you and the only person to save you is that smallish lady wey u dey pass Everytime dey go work. Especially when hospital is too far. Forget those guys dey save life. I'm a witness the day BP wan kill one woman. If not the thing don dey enter stroke.