Reverend Easthood Anaba, General Overseer of the Fountain Gate Church, on Friday asked pharmacists and other medical professionals to be assertive and take charge of the services they render to patients.
He said some health professionals were at times swayed by the attitudes of their clients and forgot that they had the competence to attend to them.
Rev. Anaba, a Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology-trained pharmacist, made the request at the end of the annual general meeting of the 10th Commonwealth Pharmacists Association in Accra on the theme: “Managing Threats and Crises: The vital role of pharmacy in an unstable world.”
The meeting coincided with the 74th pharmaceutical Society of Ghana annual conference.
Rev. Anaba urged his colleagues pharmacists to apply their profession with faith in God, explaining that people are invading prayer camps more than the medical facilities because of their belief in divine intervention.
He said pharmacists should stop dismissing their colleagues who blend their profession with spirituality as having psychological problems.
Rev. Anaba appealed to pharmacists to blend their professional work with moral values that eschew alcoholism and violations of the ethical codes of conduct.
He said pharmacists who reported to work drunk were likely to give wrong prescriptions that would kill their patients, stressing that they pharmacists should have the moral conscience to stay in business.
Rev. Anaba observed that although their profession thrives on profitability especially in times of the global crunch, pharmacists should be motivated by the love for mankind and asked them to embrace new ways of doing things.
Source: GNA
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