{"id":21093,"date":"2025-10-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:56:34","slug":"pharmacists-slam-federal-government-over-medical-supremacy-in-health-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/pharmacists-slam-federal-government-over-medical-supremacy-in-health-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacists Slam Federal Government Over \u2018Medical Supremacy\u2019 in Health Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LAGOS, Nigeria (FN)<\/strong> \u2014 The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has accused the Federal Government of institutional bias and professional discrimination, warning that its alleged favoritism toward doctors is destabilizing the nation\u2019s healthcare system and driving thousands of pharmacists out of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a pre-conference briefing in Lagos, PSN President Ayuba Tanko condemned what he called \u201cpersistent medical supremacy\u201d in policy, remuneration, and recognition. He said the government\u2019s approach has bred disunity, inefficiency, and a dangerous imbalance in healthcare delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere has been too much bias in the management of our health system,\u201d Tanko said. \u201cPharmacy and other professions deserve equal recognition and opportunities. The system must reward competence, not connections.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tanko revealed that more than eight thousand, two hundred pharmacists have failed to renew their licenses in the past five years, many of whom have migrated abroad in search of better working conditions. He warned that the exodus could cripple Nigeria\u2019s already strained health infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe profession is hemorrhaging talent,\u201d he said. \u201cIf this trend continues, we risk collapsing the entire healthcare chain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The PSN president also blasted the proposed salary relativity between the Consolidated Health Salary Structure and the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, calling it \u201cunjust, divisive, and professionally toxic.\u201d He warned that the PSN and the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) would resist any attempt to entrench what he described as \u201cimmoral and unlawful\u201d policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOtherwise, it becomes meaningless to study any other health course apart from Medicine,\u201d Tanko declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further criticized the government\u2019s selective attention in healthcare development, especially the trend of establishing universities exclusively dedicated to medicine. \u201cIt sends the wrong message that medicine is superior to other health professions, which is not true,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery discipline is essential to quality healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanko called for pharmacists to be fully integrated into policy formulation and implementation, arguing that pharmacy is a critical pillar of national health outcomes. \u201cAny government that marginalizes pharmacists is weakening the foundation of healthcare itself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The briefing also marked the launch of PSN\u2019s Centenary Celebration, commemorating one hundred years of pharmaceutical service in Nigeria. The Society\u2019s 98th Annual National Conference, themed \u201cPharmacy Forward: Building a Future-Ready Workforce for Performance, Collaboration, and Transformation,\u201d<\/em> will be held in November at Bayero University, Kano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAGOS, Nigeria (FN) \u2014 The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has accused the Federal Government of institutional bias and professional discrimination, warning that its alleged favoritism toward doctors is destabilizing the nation\u2019s healthcare system and driving thousands of pharmacists out of the country. Speaking at a pre-conference briefing in Lagos, PSN President Ayuba Tanko condemned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health-fitness","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PSN-LOGO.jpeg?fit=1120%2C716&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21097,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions\/21097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}