Bottom Line: Pharmaceutical Technologists are not junior staff, nor are they required to work under pharmacists. They are licensed professionals with the legal mandate to operate pharmacies, dispense medications, and offer pharmaceutical care in accordance with Kenyan laws.
It is important to clarify a common misconception regarding the practice of Pharmaceutical Technologists (PTs) in Kenya. The claim that PTs must work under pharmacists is factually incorrect and legally unfounded.
π PTs are trained, examined, and regulated by PPB, and undergo continuous professional development to uphold professional standards and patient safety. They are bound by ethical codes and legal obligations just like other health practitioners.
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a PT is authorized to own, manage, and operate a pharmacy independently.
π The law does not require a PT to work under a pharmacist. Instead, both professionals have distinct but complementary roles within the pharmaceutical sector.
β Pharmaceutical Technologists are independently licensed health professionals under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act (Cap 244) and recognized by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB). Once duly registered and issued with a practicing license,
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@ppbkenya should read from this script... they are notorious of coming up with guidelines and policies day in day out... @EGichane@cjohul we need change @Nakhumicha_S look into this parastatal kindly
"The government acknowledges the risks associated with the absence of a central mechanism for policies and strategies related to human resources for health. We understand the danger of haphazardly creating new policies without first analyzing the existing ones. #KenyaHRHDialogue - Nakumicha S. Wafula, Cabinet Secretary for Health.β
@MOH_Kenya way to go ... let our professionals work in the hospital...more to this urge pharmacist to wake up and take manufacturing of medicines and leave petty politics of dispensing to their juniors... we need Kenyan made drugs to enhance the cost of living
It is insane for KPA to mislead the public. Proffesionalism is something that is learnt in pharmacy schoolπ.
Bill for wanjiku?? Why politicise this? Unless you want to tell us the 13,000 of you are the patients and the true wanjiku.
ML3 regulate medical products in an efficient and effective manner. This will boost local manufacturing and improve commodity security and our export capacity. let pharmacist venture into this not specializing in social media @EGichane@KenyaKpa
@HonWetangula My Speaker:This is why you should endorse the KDA Bill 2022 report of the N.A Departmental Committee on health. Guaranteeing the presence and equitable distribution of qualified Human Resources for Healthcare (Pharmaceutical Services), even in the remotest regions
@rigathi My D.P
This is why you should endorse the KDA Bill 2022 report of the N.A Departmental Committee on health.
Guaranteeing the presence and equitable distribution of qualified Human Resources for Healthcare (Pharmaceutical Services), even in the remotest regions.