Registrar, Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, PCN, Ibrahim Ahmed, yesterday, urged the 68 graduands of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, to resist the temptation of getting rich quick in utter violation of ethical standards.
While congratulating the graduands, he said pharmacy profession is a service to save human lives, adding that unrestrained pursuit of wealth would lead to violation of the ethical standards of PCN.
He made the call during the oath-taking and induction ceremony of the fourth set of graduands of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ESUT, at Agbani, Enugu State where he was represented by the Director of Education and Training, PCN, Dr Anthony Idoko.
“I urge you to maintain high ethical standards and leadership qualities as prescribed by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria and to aim for excellence in the provision of healthcare delivery.
“As pharmacists, you are expected to get yourselves acquainted with the Code of Professional Ethics which prescribes your professional and moral responsibilities to patients, pharmacist colleagues, other health professionals, your employers and the general public among others. Strict compliance to the code of ethics is indispensable for the practice of the pharmacy profession,” he said.
In his opening address, the Vice Chancellor of ESUT, Professor Aloysius-Michaels Okolie, while congratulating the graduands, enjoined them to always remember their alma mater by identifying with the alumni association.
He enjoined the graduands to be worthy ambassadors of ESUT by eschewing unprofessional conduct in the field of practice.
”I want private investors to partner ESUT so that we can begin to think about having manufacturing outfits, we can start having ESUT branded drugs. I want our students to have demonstration laboratories so that as our graduands are leaving ESUT, they are certified on other programmes,” he said.
He stated that the management of the university would continue to invest in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences in order to make it a centre of excellence.
In his keynote address entitled ‘Embracing Failure: Importance of Having Big Dreams,” the Commissioner for Health, Imo State, Professor Chukwuemeka Ubaka, enjoined the graduands not to be deterred by failure while pursuing their dreams.
