More than 7,000 pharmacists have emigrated from Nigeria in the last two years.

President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Prof. Cyril Usifoh, said that the pharmacists left Nigeria in search of better practice environment abroad.

He stated that the issue of brain drain which remained one of the major challenges in the health sector needed serious attention in the interest of the well-being of Nigerians.

Usifoh said government needed to create the environment conducive for pharmacists to work to reverse the trend and to encourage pharmacists to stay and contribute to the development of the country.

“If you want to stop brain drain, you will create conditions to enable people not to go.

“Government should create the enabling environment that will prevent people from leaving, but to come here.

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“I am confident that when the opportunities are there, you will have what we call brain gain; they will come back: we are here, we are not leaving,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria.

Usifoh, a professor of Pharmacy, said part of PSN’s activities as an association was to make Nigeria more self-sufficient and to improve the health sector.

On the society’s 96th annual conference holding in Gombe State, the president said the PSN was in the state to evaluate its works in the past one year and to strategise on ways to improve the health sector.

The theme of the PSN 2023 conference is: “Pharmaceutical Practice: A pivot to universal health coverage in Nigeria.’’

The Star