worlexy:
Rubbish. Drug interactions is the easiest and simplest thing a medical student knows, oh it's a big thing to you guys. That's why high IQ is a requirement to study medicine

Yeah... Of course! while low I.Q pervades every other profession, including computer science, engineering, etc... Matter of fact, you guys are even far better evolved than the parents that birthed you! I wonder why the government doesn't just scrap other health workers, and leave the hospitals solely for doctors to do everything including powering generators, software, even cutting grasses too... Now, clap for yourself!!!

worlexy:
Rubbish. Drug interactions is the easiest and simplest thing a medical student knows, oh it's a big thing to you guys. That's why high IQ is a requirement to study medicine

Little wonder patients are killed on an hourly basis in our hospitals due to little medication and regimen errors from I know it all physicians. Seriously we have a long way to go to achieve adequate and standard health care delivery in Nigeria

Unlimited22:

I made a point without being insulting.
Whose brain needs testing?

you deserve it.

MrRhymes101:
u r joking right? Privatise the health sector of a country with 75% living below poverty level?? Think again!

please I don't have your time.... all of a sudden you care about the 75 percent nigerians below poverty level? Did you not think about them before you embarked on the strike? These 75 percent, are they not receiving medical care right now from private hospitals? Face the fact my dear, privatise and you wil see how irrelevant JOHESU is and i'm sure that is your fear.

mansamusa08:


Then go and carry out the doctor's order. I mean to do some massage for stroke patient.
Do not try to outshine your master.

The odour of ignorance oozes out of your write-up.

Angelfrost:


The same can truly be said about your ilk. You are taught to believe pharmacists know nothing about pathology and patho-physiology... Hell, y'all actually believe you are gods of healthcare, while others are expendable... It's not your fault that you lack professionally courtesy, it seems to be a Nigerian anomaly.

Continue with your knowledge

bornolowu:
you deserve it.

Okay.

Freddonance:


Continue with your knowledge

And you sir should also continue with your unbecoming arrogance, and ungainly need to be condescending. Just go and learn the meaning of "Professional Courtesy"... If it existed in this backward nation, this strike by johesu would have died a natural death. Thank you.

Angelfrost:


And you sir should also continue with your unbecoming arrogance, and ungainly need to be condescending. Just go and learn the meaning of "Professional Courtesy"... If it existed in this backward nation, this strike by johesu would have died a natural death. Thank you.

You talk too much

bornolowu:
please I don't have your time.

Of course you don't... How would you have the time for someone clearly superior to your reasoning ability?

Freddonance:


You talk too much

Nah! I rarely waste my intelligence on narrow-minded individuals... I simply made an exception today. This is the last time ye shall be quoted by me. Have a good day!

We really have ignorant doctors here. Yesterday I got a prescription, the doctor wrote two anti allergy medication in one prescription plus a cough medicine again who does that. I had to scrutinize it. Some patients prefer coming to ask me whether this medication is safe for use or whether the prescription is right,trust me some Nigerians don't have faith in their doctors, it happens that way.

Below is an incerpt on UK Nhs advising the public to visit pharmacies for minor ailment so as to free up space for the Gp.imagine if everyone go to the hospital to treat skin rash malaria, athlete foot, do you think there would be enough space for you lots to attend to critical cases. Use your head, I just hate how you all reason

phaamsaam:

Little wonder patients are killed on an hourly basis in our hospitals due to little medication and regimen errors from I know it all physicians. Seriously we have a long way to go to achieve adequate and standard health care delivery in Nigeria

Back your claim with figures, the causes of death in Nigerian hospitals. The havoc you people cause to the Nigerian population is overwhelming especially to the youths who simply walk up to any pharmaceutical shops without prescriptions and you sell drugs like Codeine, Tramadol, Pentazocin to them thereby increasing the rate of drug abuse and mental illness in Nigeria. BBC findings even showed one you on camera selling cartons of codeine -containing cough mixtures in packs without prescriptions and even boasting about how he sells thousands of cartons in few weeks. Now, is that how you guys plan on improving the health indices of Nigeria? oh I forgot, when things go wrong you blame the doctors and absolves yourselves of blames but when things go right you start boasting that it's because of your input. You know how you guys who are not groomed in the art of making diagnoses are "diagnosing " patients in your shops and stores and doling out antibiotics like pure water thereby causing drug resistance?
Like I said before, go and learn and also focus on your field of training which is to formulate new drugs and improve on the existing ones rather than lying to the public that you're physicians with skills of making diagnoses and when they call you doctors erroneously, you feel on top of the world impersonating what you are not!

6inches:
We really have ignorant doctors here. Yesterday I got a prescription, the doctor wrote two anti allergy medication in one prescription plus a cough medicine again who does that. I had to scrutinize it. Some patients prefer coming to ask me whether this medication is safe for use or whether the prescription is right,trust me some Nigerians don't have faith in their doctors, it happens that way.

Below is an incerpt on UK Nhs advising the public to visit pharmacies for minor ailment so as to free up space for the Gp.imagine if everyone go to the hospital to treat skin rash malaria, athlete foot, do you think there would be enough space for you lots to attend to critical cases. Use your head, I just hate how you all reason

Show us the prescription bearing the two anti allergy (of the same class not an anhistamine and a steroid o) or keep quiet

worlexy:
Show us the prescription bearing the two anti allergy (of the same class not an anhistamine and a steroid o) or keep quiet

I'm also waiting for the drugs.

worlexy:
I have thought very well with my brain, it's you that should do the same. what will be the job of a pharmacist consultant in the hospital, is it to continue dispensing drugs like he has always done or does he want to start attending to patients and prescribing his own drugs? Will that not be the beginning of anarchy in the hospital? Your doctor writes drug A for you and your pharmacist changes your drug to B just because he feels he is a consultant too, will that not bring about problems. Go to most pharmaceutical shops outside the hospitals now you will see them attending to patients and prescribing drugs, is that how it is done in sane environment? And if you say they won't be changing doctor's prescriptions if they become consultants then why do they want to become consultants if the only job they do in the hospital is to dispense drugs? They should go and become consultants in pharmaceutical and research industry where they can use their knowledge to formulate new and effective drugs. Cos as it is today, pharmacy technician can effectively do the job of dispensing in the hospitals

Pls Google is your friend, the work of pharmacist goes beyond dispensing drug in a hospital. Pls stop posting what you don't know and mislead the public. Search the internet to know the function of a consultant pharmacist in UK US and any other advance country.

The patient took it along,bro I see more of this all the time, you might be a good doctor but I know what some of your colleagues churn out in the name of prescription.

worlexy:
Show us the prescription bearing the two anti allergy (of the same class not an anhistamine and a steroid o) or keep quiet

worlexy:
Show us the prescription bearing the two anti allergy (of the same class not an anhistamine and a steroid o) or keep quiet

and for your information i inquired about what she was treating she said catarrh,so shut the bleep up.

Phelixdegreat:



You are a mannequin, a dummy. Did you go to school at all because if you did you'd have taken your time to read and have a first hand idea of what JOHESU is clamouring for. If you are indeed learned, pls behave as one... Read... Google is your friend

when I see a child opportuned to have a smartphone hiding behind a keyboard I know one... I know you are pained by mere hearing of the name Doctor. .. If you wish to be one, pay the price they have paid ...now please go back to u it books

6inches:
and for your information i inquired about what she was treating she said catarrh,so shut the bleep up.

She's surely one of your pharmacists colleagues or other johesu members impersonating a doctor. Common cold that a year one clinical student will treat while sleeping, it's you people that are half baked and that dabble into what you know nothing about that make such blunders. How will a medical doctor prescribe two different antihistamines for the same patient. Maybe she's a doctor of pharmacy, doctor of optometry or doctor of medical lab

6inches:
The patient took it along,bro I see more of this all the time, you might be a good doctor but I know what some of your colleagues churn out in the name of prescription.

Next time you see such a prescription pls snap it and use it as an evidence, if you do a thorough investigation you will know that the so called doctor is your fellow johesu

A johesu member with a doctors signature from a particular private hospital bro it seems you are still in medical school,graduate first then reality sets in.

worlexy:
She's surely one of your pharmacists colleagues or other johesu members impersonating a doctor. Common cold that a year one clinical student will treat while sleeping, it's you people that are half baked and that dabble into what you know nothing about that make such blunders. How will a medical doctor prescribe two different antihistamines for the same patient. Maybe she's a doctor of pharmacy, doctor of optometry or doctor of medical lab

You really don't sound intelligent brother this is what you can spew out.this is what your grey matter could think of, you can decide to meet me up close I bet you won't be able to stand the so called bloody johesu member

worlexy:
Next time you see such a prescription pls snap it and use it as an evidence, if you do a thorough investigation you will know that the so called doctor is your fellow johesu

6inches:
You really don't sound intelligent brother this is what you can spew out.this is what your grey matter could think of, you can decide to meet me up close I bet you won't be able to stand the so called bloody johesu member

Empty barrel makes the loudest noise

6inches:
A johesu member with a doctors signature from a particular private hospital bro it seems you are still in medical school,graduate first then reality sets in.

So a doctor has a peculiar signature that your people can't forge? You JOHESU that can so impersonate a doctor easily and are always happy when patients erroneously call you "doctor" ,I wonder what will be too big for you to do, forging a doctor's signature will be the easiest of it for you.

You just think being a doctor is the ultimate thing in life like ,Nigeria made this so,most of you go into medical school not for the passion,but to escape poverty ,i can tell you that cause I have friends ,boy wake the Bleep up, how many of you guys specialize, tell me,i am not sure you have the brain to become a neurosurgeon set.

worlexy:
So a doctor has a peculiar signature that your people can't forge? You JOHESU that can so impersonate a doctor easily and are always happy when patients erroneously call you "doctor" ,I wonder what will be too big for you to do, forging a doctor's signature will be the easiest of it for you.

worlexy:
Back your claim with figures, the causes of death in Nigerian hospitals. The havoc you people cause to the Nigerian population is overwhelming especially to the youths who simply walk up to any pharmaceutical shops without prescriptions and you sell drugs like Codeine, Tramadol, Pentazocin to them thereby increasing the rate of drug abuse and mental illness in Nigeria. BBC findings even showed one you on camera selling cartons of codeine -containing cough mixtures in packs without prescriptions and even boasting about how he sells thousands of cartons in few weeks. Now, is that how you guys plan on improving the health indices of Nigeria? oh I forgot, when things go wrong you blame the doctors and absolves yourselves of blames but when things go right you start boasting that it's because of your input. You know how you guys who are not groomed in the art of making diagnoses are "diagnosing " patients in your shops and stores and doling out antibiotics like pure water thereby causing drug resistance?
Like I said before, go and learn and also focus on your field of training which is to formulate new drugs and improve on the existing ones rather than lying to the public that you're physicians with skills of making diagnoses and when they call you doctors erroneously, you feel on top of the world impersonating what you are not!

Drug abuse in history in Nigeria has been traced to physicians, it was all over the Internet few days back... I saw medicine before opting for Pharmacy.. I simply correct my patients and clients with sagacity and a calm tone to address me as a pharmacist, little wonder physicians wanna delve into Drug funds, HIV/Aids programme, open pharmacies in all the cronies and hospitals with pharmacies running without a pharmacist... Simply tell the FG to honor signed agreements just like they did in three weeks last year and we move forward

JOHESU is winning the battle for the enthronement of efficiency, effectiveness and quality of care in the health sector that's scourged by decades of NMA maladministration. It may interest you to know that some states like yobe, Lagos, sokoto and kwara have met the demands of JOHESU. Kwara state has appointed a nurse as the substantive commissioner of health. FMOH should have obeyed previous court injunctions in favour of JOHESU and not acting as proxy in the suit.

6inches:
You just think being a doctor is the ultimate thing in life like ,Nigeria made this so,most of you go into medical school not for the passion,but to escape poverty ,i can tell you that cause I have friends ,boy wake the Bleep up, how many of you guys specialize, tell me,i am not sure you have the brain to become a neurosurgeon set.

At least it's good to do something inorder to escape poverty, now why did you go to study pharmacy? in order to be dispensing drugs all over private hospital in Lagos abi, I'm sure you want to lie that you had a passion for Pharmacy of dispensing drugs
You spent 5yrs in school to be putting drugs inside envelope and marking it II-II-II. Your colleagues in other countries are doing research to help humanity you're there forming superhero Mr Dispenser

You that have the brain go and become a Consultant NeuroPharmacist first na

mansamusa08:


Then go and carry out the doctor's order. I mean to do some massage for stroke patient.
Do not try to outshine your master.

Do you know what stroke is? or you think it is malaria and typhoid fever? You should have done the massage with your hands too?It is better you argue with your keyboard and ask google than displaying ignorance and arrogance here in a shameless manner.

Marsnizz:
I never see this type of greediness in my entire life .If JOHESU are trying to get equal pay as medical doctor ,then,I think they need their brain to be examined and cross check by a psychiatrist. Don't they have fathers and mothers before they were born?From the day you are conceived as a human being to the time you grow gray hair and die,you have some one you call your father. So,in any medical set up,like it or hate it, the doctors remain your father. Simple logic! if you want to be same in everything as a medical doctor, then follow due process and become father and leader like them in that same medical line .No need to fight over nothing that you are not up to!.Yeah! the health workers knows what I am saying because I work among them but not as a qualified doctor, consultant or a neurosurgeon. JOHESU!JOHESU!!JOHESU!!!. How many time did I call you? Be warn and imbibe some respect for your fathers if not,the opportunity,Previledge and sense of decency you have as health workers will be taken away from you .Instead of the promotion and upgrade you are fighting for,you will surely get demotion and downgraded with total disrespect and humiliation."NONSENSE AND INGREDIENT "

Chai my brother you funny die. I almost died of laughter while reading your comment, did you want johesu to commit suicide after reading this

Jman06:
You were making sense until the last paragraph of your post where you displayed a gross lack of knowledge of the roles of pharmacists in healthcare delivery!

You should have just done a little research on the roles of pharmacists in those two countries you cited as focal points and in other developed countries of the world.

For your information, Pharmacists do not only dispense drugs in those countries, they are involved in direct patients contacts through ward rounds and counseling. They check physicians' prescription errors, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions, drug-disease interaction, and other possible interactions that could occur in the course of pharmacotherapy.
Ever asked yourself why Nigerian healthcare system remains abysmally poor despite government's investments and medical doctors being at the helm of affairs since Some of the reasons can be traced to other healthcare professionals like pharmacists not being allowed to put in their bests in patients care. How i wish that Nigeria could make autopsies compulsory before those who died in hospitals are interred. That will reveal so much about how Nigerians die avoidable deaths from drug errors and improper use of drugs when they go to hospitals.
Take a scenario such as this: An epileptic patient who is suffering from lower respiratory tract infection at the same time, he goes to the hospital and the physician prescribed a combination of erythromycin (an antibiotics for his infection) and then carbamazepine (an anti epileptic). Assuming there is no pharmacist around to correct such wrong combination, do you know that the patient would come down with carbamazepine toxicity with the resultant organ failures leading to his death This is just a tip of the iceberg!! Several of these interactions occur both in inpatient and outpatient settings and has led to the death of many!

Haven't you heard of cases where a man left his house to the hospital just to get treated of minor ailment only to die in the hospital following administration of some drugs prescribed by the physician Drugs are very dangerous substance that can either save a man if judiciously used, or KILL him if wrongly used. Pharmacists know drugs and their actions better than physicians as a matter of fact.
Knowledge of pharmacology which physicians have is not enough to make rational drug decisions since the important concepts of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics are not discussed in details in most pharmacology textbooks, hence pharmacists study them further in clinical pharmacy. Some physicians i.e clinical pharmacologists may have some knowledge in this regard, but mainly for the purposes of research and teaching, besides they are very few.
So, the role of Pharmacists in hospitals cannot be overemphasized. If not, the developed nations you cited in your post wouldn't recognize them as key stakeholders in their hospitals to the extent of appointing them as CONSULTANTS.

N:B, I'm a pharmacist in training and my interest is not in hospital pharmacy but in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. However, the truth has to always be stated regardless of our biases.

Liar. Nigerian drug dispensers calling themselves pharmacists claim they check drug-food interactions but over the years they didn't know that it's dangerous to take Ascorbic acid (That's Vitamin C in case you don't know) with Fanta or Sprite. it took the intervention of the original pharmacists(not mere dispensers) in the UK to detect it for us and warn us to desist,before the house of representatives decided to make it a law that the maker of Fanta and sprite should put the warning of their bottles.
How would Nigerian drug dispensers have known when they don't do anything but to dispense and fight for how to become consultants drug dispensers, instead of doing researches?