The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Anambra State Chapter has commenced the celebration of 2024 Pharmacy Week with a health walk tagged “Solution Health Walk For Life.”
The Pharmacy Week, which is the maiden edition of the program, has the theme, “Pharmacists: Meeting Global Needs,” and will further create awareness of the important work of pharmacists in society and will be concluded with the thirty-first Annual Scientific Conference of the association on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
The “Solution Health Walk For Life,” which took place over the weekend, began at Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square with aerobics, while the roadshow traversed the major parts of Awka metropolis, from Aroma Junction through the ever-busy Enugu-Onitsha Expressway to Unizik Junction, Y-Junction and then back to Ekwueme Square.
According to the Chairman of the association, Pharmacist Emeka Okpana, Pharmacists are important professionals in the public health sector and should maintain regular healthy relationships with the members of the public to reduce the prevalence of self-medication, drug abuse, and misuse and administration of counterfeit drugs by non-professionals or quacks.
The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of Anambra State Primary Health Care Development Agency, and former Chairman of the association, Pharmacist. Chisom Uchem, the Vice Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Anambra State Chapter, and Chairman of the Organization, Development and Pharmacy Week Committee, Pharmacist Alexander Ndupuechi, also spoke at the event.
