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PHARMACIES IN NIGERIA ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE FOREVER : CPACPI FRAMEWORK OFFICIALLY ENDORSED!

Nigeria’s community pharmacies are no longer just medicine shops. Thanks to a new professional development framework endorsed by key stakeholders, pharmacists are set to become central players in primary healthcare.

The game-changing meeting, convened by the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) and the Community Pharmacists Assessment and Career Progression Institute (CPACPI) in Abuja, brought together government officials, regulators, WHO representatives, development partners, and private sector leaders.

Here’s why this matters:

Community pharmacists are often the first point of care for many Nigerians. Nearly 60% of patients visit a pharmacy before a hospital.

CPACPI introduces a 5-level career pathway:
From Community Pharmacist → Senior Community Pharmacist → Specialist → Senior Specialist → Consultant. Progression is now tied to measurable outcomes, mentorship, and structured appraisals.

The framework aims to transition pharmacies from simple medicine-dispensing outlets to full healthcare hubs, boosting access, service quality, and health data reporting across Nigeria.

32 individuals from public and private sectors were recognized as CPACPI Champions, leading the push for professional excellence and healthcare expansion.

Experts agree this is more than a framework – it’s a healthcare revolution. With proper legislative support and collaboration with the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, community pharmacies could fill major gaps in primary healthcare, including maternal health, disease prevention, and data-driven healthcare planning.

Nigeria is witnessing the professionalization of its pharmacists like never before. Soon, your local pharmacy may not just dispense medicines – it could be your first stop for healthcare advice, preventive care, and trusted guidance.

The question now is – are pharmacists ready to step up, and will the system back them fully?

Source: https://www.sunnewsonline.com/stakeholders-endorse-new-framework-for-community-pharmacy-practice/

Good way to solve the medical issues in Nigeria However, hope this wouldn't be another failed "renewed hope" project. Nigeria is aleays good at making policies and promises to build castle in the air, but ,a prominent Master’s Degree holder in failing to bring them to fruition.

This is a big big development. Kudos to good leadership

That’s good policy. Make dem no forget Chemist Shop too

Very interesting
We await the change

Hope they won't use price to kill us, like weti farmers used price of rice with plenty of stones to kill us

Tinubu is the best president in the history of Nigeria so far

saintbillion:
Hope they won't use price to kill us, like weti farmers used price of rice with plenty of stones to kill us

You already know how the system operates and what is coming. So don't pretend or feign ignoorance😂

Change forever to start inflating drugs prices and so many irregularities since their principal is the president and has ban importation of drugs.

The druggie is on a mission.

Anything that will deter those guys up the coast from flooding the market with their regular fake medicines will be accepted.

Doctors no go gree them, na them monopolized every sector of healthcare

Chemist shop wey dey groundnut and seaman sachet??...🏃😭

Dpharmacist:
Source: https://www.sunnewsonline.com/stakeholders-endorse-new-framework-for-community-pharmacy-practice/

May their children and relatives with health challenges be thier visitors to the community Pharmacies.

Chikarata2020:
Doctors no go gree them, na them monopolized every sector of healthcare

Pharmacists are Doctors too. There is Doctor of Pharmacy. You probably mean the Doctors with MBBS Bachelor degrees.

The only Proper Doctors are those with PhDs.

This is a pragmatic way for government to tap into the huge opportunity the Community Pharmacists offer them on a platter to improve public health.

Even healthcare proffessionals do not go to the hospital first. They visit the Community Pharmacists and seek his expert advice sometimes codedly though.

There is a Federal Minister who took advantage of this kind of opportunity currently available in the UK to become a Prescribing Consultant Pharmacist today yet UK has more orthodox healthcare professionals more than us.

We are just catching up with this huge reality that we are underutilizing scarce resources and everyone is paying for it.

Only the Pharmacists are the closest healthcare professionals to those who seek healthcare services everywhere in the world. If you tie the hands of Pharmscists in Nigeria out of envy, you are doing yourself and your own nation albeit you can not tie their hands. Many will even japa than to have their hands tied while those in Nigeria will not be affected if you want the status quo. They will still get paid but for doing less of what their colleagues in UK, US etc do.

This is the most pragmatic and smartest health policy to ever be proposed in Nigeria. Every patriotic Nigerian needs to support it .

God bless Nigeria.

Dpharmacist:
Source: https://www.sunnewsonline.com/stakeholders-endorse-new-framework-for-community-pharmacy-practice/

this begins and ends here

aydought:
Good way to solve the medical issues in Nigeria However, hope this wouldn't be another failed "renewed hope" project. Nigeria is aleays good at making policies and promises to build castle in the air, but ,a prominent Master’s Degree holder in failing to bring them to fruition.

Fail as how nah?

The policy is all about our Nigeria pharmacy industry to gain more confidence to produce more… How’s that gonna fail?

yyoomy63:
That’s good policy. Make dem no forget Chemist Shop too

Forget chemist shop?

How do you mean bro?

akingangan:
Tinubu is the best president in the history of Nigeria so far

E clear like sky brethren..

Nah why all their propaganda towards tinubu no work..

Chikarata2020:
Doctors no go gree them, na them monopolized every sector of healthcare

You’re correct about doctors..

This is a well deserved Development and kudos to all the Players as this will increase our healthcare awareness .

And to your QUESTION ?

As long as we have JAGABAN in CHARGE , the ANSWER is YES .

Thanks and GOD bless you .

This will lead to late presentation at the hospital..
Leading to more deaths from complications.. cause pharmacists I know will never refer you to a specialist. Cause they don’t want to feel less..

I think this is a mistake by the federal government

Fatneighbor20:
This will lead to late presentation at the hospital..
Leading to more deaths from complications.. cause pharmacists I know will never refer you to a specialist. Cause they don’t want to feel less..

I think this is a mistake by the federal government

If problem pass pharmacist him no dey accept

akingangan:
Tinubu is the best president in the history of Nigeria so far

No talk am again, make your mouth no bend.

Una go hear am ehn

Una neva learn from the mistake under pmb admin in agric sector

If it under pdp and a healthy president I for say go ahead.

But this under APC regime that don't like to monitor project or policies

I prefer to be called a physician or surgeon than to be called a doctor..that name has been bastadised...my lab tech is known as a doctor on the streets just becos he works in a hospital..if u check his bag it's filled with needles..antibiotics..antimalarial..Methylated spirit...cotton wool..Sterile guaze and suturing kit......

...Soon, your local pharmacy may not just dispense medicines – it could be your first stop for healthcare advice, preventive care, and trusted guidance.


Isn't that what they currently do, even according to the write-up?

I stand to be corrected, but I don't think there's anything in the proposal that's different from what pharmacies all over the country are currently doing.

On a side note, those in the medical field should help out with these. There are people that "learn work" in a pharmacy before opening their own, while hanging the certificate of a certified pharmacist as their consultant, and those girls that "learn nursing" in a hospital and in one year, they become nurses and now give injections and treat people operating on the same level as those that go to nursing school... Are both cases legal?

Rubbish and mediocre stuff.

No place for Pharmacy Assistants and Pharmacy Technicians. We always do mediocre things in Nigeria

Dpharmacist:
Source: https://www.sunnewsonline.com/stakeholders-endorse-new-framework-for-community-pharmacy-practice/

Was this discussed with the pharmacist association of Nigeria?

Yampotatocarrot:
...Soon, your local pharmacy may not just dispense medicines – it could be your first stop for healthcare advice, preventive care, and trusted guidance.


Isn't that what they currently do, even according to the write-up?

I stand to be corrected, but I don't think there's anything in the proposal that's different from what pharmacies all over the country are currently doing.

On a side note, those in the medical field should help out with these. There are people that "learn work" in a pharmacy before opening their own, while hanging the certificate of a certified pharmacist as their consultant, and those girls that "learn nursing" in a hospital and in one year, they become nurses and now give injections and treat people operating on the same level as those that go to nursing school... Are both cases legal?

They are illegal! Those are quacks and are usually severely punished when caught. They're death traps and should be done away with if we want to have a strong healthcare system

Fatneighbor20:
This will lead to late presentation at the hospital..
Leading to more deaths from complications.. cause pharmacists I know will never refer you to a specialist. Cause they don’t want to feel less..

I think this is a mistake by the federal government

How many Pharmacists do you know? You think pharmacists are like you medical doctors that claim monopoly of medical knowledge even with just your MBBS? Pharmacists know their scope and usually don't go beyond that. It is Nigerian medical doctors that are known for usurpation of professional responsibilities of others.

I'm a Doctor, and please anything to reduce our workload, make una do am.
But sha have sense to refer cases you can't handle and fast .