College Asks Commission To Step Up Advocacy For Patients’ Bill Rights

West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (WAPCP) has called connected the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to advocator and instrumentality the Patients’ Bill of Rights successful Nigeria.

It made the telephone astatine a property league successful Abuja to commemorate the 2025 World Patient Safety Day, with the taxable “Safe Care for Every Newborn and Every Child” and the slogan “Patient Safety from the Start.”

The college’s zonal coordinator successful Abuja, Dr Abubakar Danraka, stressed the request to prioritise diligent safety, peculiarly for newborns and children, who look disproportionately precocious risks of harm successful healthcare settings.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), diligent information is the lack of preventable harm to a patient, and probe shows that up to 97% of adverse events successful neonatal attraction are preventable.

The WAPCP noted that diligent information risks successful Nigerian healthcare settings are akin to those elsewhere. Common adverse events see medicine errors, surgical errors, diagnostic errors, and healthcare-associated infections.

Danraka noted that advisor pharmacists person played a important relation successful promoting diligent information done medicine reviews, verifying prescriptions, and educating healthcare teams and patients.

He commended 8 national agencies successful the Federal Capital Territory for appointing advisor pharmacists, enhancing diligent information standards and fostering collaborative efforts successful pharmaceutical care.

“This strategical determination has greatly enhanced diligent information standards and fostered collaborative efforts successful pharmaceutical care.

Our entreaty is passionate and transparent: we powerfully promote each different healthcare institutions yet to name consultant-level pharmacists to bash truthful without further delay.

“The beingness of highly trained pharmacist consultants is simply a game-changer successful the combat against medicine errors and successful promoting holistic diligent information crossed each levels of care,” helium said.

He urged each healthcare institutions to name consultant-level pharmacists to beforehand holistic diligent safety.

Danraka noted that prioritising diligent information tin prevention lives and fortify lifelong wellness outcomes.

He called connected the Federal Ministry of Health and different health-focused institutions to prioritise diligent information successful Nigeria to trim aesculapian mistakes and heighten healthcare.