The sub-regional event, which began on Monday April 15th to last till Thursday 18th April, is being held under the theme - ‘Medicine Safety’.
It will be delivered by two keynote speakers; Professor Pierre Gomez, The Gambian Minister for Higher Education, and Dr Edith A. Annan from WHO Afro Office, Congo Brazaville.
Announcing the events marking this year’s meeting at a press conference, Professor Ibrahim Adekunle Oreagba, Secretary General of WAPCP, dislcosed that a total of eighty-one (81) practitioners will be inducted as fellows in various specialties offered by the College, having successfully passed the final examinations of the four-year Fellowship programme.
Other highlights of the opening ceremony include the investiture of two (2) Honorary Fellows, five (5) Foundation Fellows from three (3) Francophone countries (Benin, Senegal and Togo) and one (1) Lusophone country (Guinea Bissau); Nine (9) Elected Fellows from the West African region.
Moreover, among those being elected as fellows are the former Director of National Pharmaceutical Services and currently the Deputy Permanent Secretary, MOH, The Gambia, Mr. Babanding Sabally; Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control Nigeria (NAFDAC), Professor Christianah M. Adeyeye; The Director General, Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Dr Obi Adigwe; The former Director General of Standards Organization of Nigeria, Pharm Farouk Salim; The immediate Past President of the Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americas, Dr Teresa Pounds amongst others.
The current Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ms. Kachollom Shangti Daju, mni, and Dr Prosper Hiag from Cameroun, current Vice President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) are the recipients of the Honorary Fellow of the College.
An important event at the 4-day sub-regional confab is the academic presentation by participants from the countries of the 5-member College: The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra-Leone.
The Annual General Meeting of the WAPCP is hosted by member-countries every year. The last time the meeting held in Banjul was in April 2018.
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