The pharmacy body said, while other sectors are embracing the disruptive innovation in Information Technology, it is important that community pharmacists leverage on the positive advantage to ensure patients’ care and safety is improved.
“These days, virtually everything is going in the way of Information Technology and because of the need that we service out client very well, we decided that we should take out time to see how we can involve IT methods to ensure that patients are adequately taken care of. “When you have IT in place you can track so many things and you can keep medication profile of the patient overtime and that will help. In the case of any incident, then we can trace back what the person has taken and probably link it with where the problem is. We are thinking of how we can do it as ACPN, so we have a robust electronic system for doing our job,” he said.
The ACPN day also saw residents of Gbagada community and its environ undergo free health screening on hepatitis B, Human Immunodeficiency Virus , blood pressure, fasting blood sugar, random blood sugar, Body Mass Index , neuropathy and other common preventable health conditions. Onyia noted that periodic health check is of many advantages as it helps to find problems early before they start, that is, when chances for treatment and cure are better, which is in form of primary prevention, as well as identify risk factors for common chronic diseases.
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