NSUKKA (ENUGU STATE) – Mr Elijah Mohammed, Registrar, Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria (PCN) has urged 112 newly inducted pharmacy graduates of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), to pay attention to saving lives, instead of mad rush to make money.
Mohammed gave the charge in Nsukka on Saturday during the oath-taking and induction ceremony of the 2013/2014 pharmacy graduates of the university.
He said the first aim of pharmacy profession was to save life and attributed the rise in fake drugs to unguided ambition of some people to get rich overnight.
“As you join the pharmacy profession today, your first mission should be to save life and in the course of saving life money will get into your hands.
“The PCN will not hesitate to sanction and withdraw the professional license of any member denting the image of the profession.
“It is because of mad rush for money that fake drugs has been on daily increase, which has claimed many innocent lives as well as made it impossible for certain illness to be cured,’’ he said.
He said the council was putting measures in place to ensure that before 2016, registration of members would be online so as to monitor the activity of every pharmacist in the country.
Mohammed regretted that some members, through their unethical acts, were painting the image of the profession black.
“Ensure you abide by the ethics of the profession by respecting the dos and don’ts of the profession,’’ he urged the new pharmacy graduates.
Earlier in his remarks, the Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Prof. Chinedu Ibezim, said the pharmacy profession was going through a period of positive transformation by trying to key into her proper place in the health sector.
Ibezim urged staff and students of the faculty to contribute their quota to ensure a successful re-accreditation of the faculty next year.
He congratulated the newly inducted graduates on the feat of becoming members of PCN.
In a keynote address entitled: “Networking: A tool for Digital Wealth Creation,” Mr Clifford Emenike, Chief Executive Officer of Eaglevision Investment Concept Initiator, urged the inductees to be team players if they want to be successful in life.
“Professional colleagues as you go into the world, if you must make real money, if you must create digital wealth that will trickle down to generation unborn, be prepared to be consummate team players.
“This is why banks and other financial institutions prefer to give loans to co-operatives instead of individual.
“If you do well, we shall certainly meet at the top,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Miss Nkiruka Ibeanu, the overall best graduating student, received many awards from the faculty and other pharmaceutical organisations. (NAN)
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