OUR REF: 2015/47/PR/PSN

April 01, 2015

 

His Excellency

General Muhammadu Buhari

President-Elect

Federal Republic of Nigeria

 

Your Excellency,

 

On behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC), the Council and entire membership of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), I wish to congratulate you for a well deserved election as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

While thanking God for his mercies and protection over you throughout the duration of the campaign, we also pray to God to grant you the wisdom, knowledge and courage to continue to lead our dear country to enviable heights.  Your impressive pedigree and antecedents confirm you will always succeed in running Nigeria.

 

We at the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria would like to seize this opportunity to inform Your Excellency about our willingness to partner with you to ensure the achievement of good health for all citizens in Nigeria.

 

Your Excellency, it is imperative that we begin to draw your attention to the tears of the major care providers in the perennially volatile health sector in Nigeria. The fundamental problem at least in the out-going dispensation stems from the nature of appointment of those who preside over the Federal Ministry of Health. In the current dispensation the thrust of the dislocation was the appointment of two (2) members of the same profession in a multi-disciplinary sector to prevail. This was unprecedented and logically the many aberrations that still dot our lives are also unprecedented.

 

We shall therefore encourage Your Excellency to be open minded to embrace global realities which have opened up the hitherto restricted borders in healthcare. Today the norm is to appoint seasoned administrators and managers of cognate experience to run the business of healthcare which is similar to any other business.

 

Your Excellency must be wary of the tendencies of some of your political acolytes who have always had a bias for only a group of professionals who play God and have been allowed to assume the tragic epitomes of emperors in healthcare in our country. Our belief is that your leadership will come with fresh ideas and new thinking to move healthcare forward. We have therefore attached an edited version of an agenda in healthcare to Your Excellency.

 

Once more, we say CONGRATULATIONS. May your tenure bring peace and progress to Nigeria.

 

Thank you.

 

Yours faithfully,

FOR: PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NIGERIA

OLUMIDE AKINTAYO, FPSN , FPCPHARM, FNAPHARM, FNIM

PRESIDENT