The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria for Advocacy in Child and Family Health at Scale (PSN-PAS) Project, has urged government and other relevant stakeholders to deepen involvement of community pharmacists, patent and proprietary medicines vendors (PPMVs), in the provision of expanded family planning information and services.
Addressing the news men during a press briefing in Abuja, the program director, PSN-PAS, Pharm Ayuba Tanko Ibrahim, reiterated the need to identify and build the capabilities of PPMVs to provide more expanded family planning services.
Ibrahim who was represented by the Senior Program Officer, Dr Edwin Akpotor, said the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), should be supported to provide adequate and quality supervision in repositioning PPMVs to provide quality services to Nigerians especially those in the hard-to-reach communities.
He called on partners who intend to work with PPMVs on family planning or primary health care services to liaise with the PCN in…
