Nigerian pharmacists raise alarm over exit of 9000 members in four years

Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, has raised alarm implicit the emigration of nary less than 9,000 pharmacists from Nigeria to different countries successful hunt of greener pasture. 

Describing the concern arsenic regrettable, the radical demanded the proviso of indispensable resources to marque beingness comfy for professionals to code the alarming complaint of encephalon drain successful the aesculapian sector.

The ACPN National Chairman, Pharmacist Ambrose Ezeh made the telephone astatine the 45th yearly nationalist technological league of the relation held successful Abuja. 

Ezeh successful a connection made disposable to DAILY POST astatine the extremity of the league on Sunday, revealed that nary less than 9,000 pharmacists has emigrated from Nigeria successful the past 4 years. 

The ACPN National Chairman further disclosed that the inclination has continued successful 2026, revealing that much than 850 pharmacists obtained letters of bully lasting wrong the archetypal six months of the twelvemonth successful mentation to relocate to countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and United States.

Ezeh explained that the aesculapian professionals near the state owed to po...