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“Doctors, major problem in health care” – Oga of Pharmacists • “You’re insincere” – Oga of Doctors

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“Pharmacists have accused medical doctors of posing threats to the lives of Nigerians through unethical practices. They challenged them to an open debate over their activities in the health sector.

The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mr. Olumide Akintayo, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone on Friday, accused doctors of breeding quacks through the training of auxiliary nurses and health attendants in private health institutions.

He said, “Medical doctors are about the biggest problem in health care. In Nigeria today, 99 per cent of them stock drugs in their private health facilities for prescription to patients. This is wrong; it is illegal. They constitute the biggest threat to lives in the health sector.

“Find out who trains auxiliary nurses and health attendants. When the trainees leave the setting, they spread to the communities to perpetrate illegalities.”

The PSN boss argued that pharmacists could not be held responsible for the purpose for which a drug is bought.

He blamed the unrestricted over-the-counter sale of prescription drugs on regulatory agencies. He called for the empowering of the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria to enforce and prosecute. He also urged the government to budget more funds for the sector.

Akintayo said, “As for drugs, the problem in Nigeria is that there is unhindered access to all categories of drugs. The regulatory agencies are not empowered financially too. Government earmarks about five per cent of its budget for health care, compared to 13 per cent of the minimum required.”

The Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association, Dr. Francis Faduyile, however, said pharmacists were insincere with their allegations.

According to him, training of nurses and health workers in private hospitals had been banned in Lagos State.

“Pharmacists consult within their shops and this is beyond their work. It is part of the rights of a doctor to prescribe and to leverage on a number of drugs. The major question is, ‘Are pharmacists ready to stop consulting in their shops?’

“If you go to any pharmacy to complain of headache or fever, drugs will be prescribed for you. Go there with the result of a blood test; you will see them giving you drugs. It is not about professional fight; let us do the right thing.”

Gangnam Style, most-watched Youtube video. Dance like say you dey on top horse…

Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style, the dance track wey South Korean pop phenomenon Psy, don turn Youtube’s most-watched video of all time. You fit get to watch am here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

The video don gather more than 814 million views since dem upload am for July.

Psy cartoonised

 

 

The video dey make yeye of – “poke fun at” the consumerism of Gangnam, one better suburb for the South Korean capital Seoul.

 

For inside the song, the portly Psy dey dance as if na on top horse em dey, holding the reins and spinning a lasso in a manner everybody for the world don dey kolo with the dance.

“The video also features the 34-year-old singer reclining on a sun lounger in tight pink shorts, gazing longingly at a girl dancing on an underground train in tight shorts and gesticulating at a woman working out on a beach – in tight shorts.

The dance
Workout

“The dance has sparked numerous copycat versions, being performed by a diverse fan-base including Filipino prison inmatesprominent Chinese artist Ai WeiweiUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a Chinese robot.”

Gangnam Style, na em win best video for this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards and the thing na number one in 28 countries.

Ecstacy

Na em hold the Guinness World Record for the most “liked” song ever – about 5.4 million likes on YouTube.

This video, na em take over from Justin Bieber’s.

Homey