6th April, 2018
Mrs. Bolanle Amupitan, Kogi Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, has urged Pharmacist to strive toward improving the quality of healthcare in the rural areas.
Amupitan spoke on Friday in Lokoja, when the Association of Lady Pharmacist of Nigeria, Kogi chapter, visited her office.
She commended the association for the love shown to orphans through various donations, especially the gifts of food items and other materials during its recent visit to the Lokoja Orphanage.
The commissioner expressed the ministry’s readiness to collaborate with the association in the areas of drug abuse, drug addiction, sex education and the rehabilitation of persons involved in drugs.
She advised the pharmacists to strengthen their programmes aimed at a better society for all, and expressed government’s readiness to support such efforts.
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Speaking earlier, the chairperson of the association, Mrs. Saratu Alhassan, had thanked the Kogi Governor,
Alhaji Yahaya Bello, for appointing one of them as Permanent Secretary in the ministry, saying that the group was ready to collaborate with the government in all areas.
She appealed for support toward executing the association’s welfare programmes, urging all Nigerians to make sacrifices to make the country a better place for all.
In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mrs. Negedu Arome, thanked her colleagues for the visit, and assured them of her continued support in the execution of welfare programmes.
She promised to make the pharmacists proud, noting that women were well known for efficiency and keeping their words.