Ninety-nine percent of private hospitals in Nigeria run fake and unregistered pharmacies, it was revealed.
This was revealed by the national chairman and secretary of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), Adewale Oladigbolu and Ezeh Ambrose.
In a statement on Sunday, the officials said those hospitals lacked pharmacists to superintend dispensing and counselling of drug-related endeavours.
They said over 99 percent of the private hospitals run unregistered pharmacies with no pharmacist to supervise dispensing and counseling of drug related endeavours contrary to the Poison and Pharmacy Act.
Oladigbolu said the exploitation of patients who sometimes pay over 500 percent more than the baseline cost of drugs through trickster manoeuvres is one of the planks of survival by private physicians in Nigeria.
Oladigbolu also claimed that private hospitals in Nigeria are the centres of unrestricted and unchecked creation of sub-professional cadres in healthcare “because this is where auxiliary nurses, drug dispensing assistants and diagnostic assistants are trained and sometimes certified while the various Private Hospital Registration Authorities and the MDCN look away to protect their Physician brothers.”
The association was reacting to a statement by the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Tajudeen Sanusi, that private hospitals in Nigeria were the centres of unrestricted and unchecked creation of sub-professional cadres in healthcare.
