The pharmacists under the auspices of Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, Lagos State Branch described the Scheme as discriminatory as it does not give room for other professionals apart from medical practitioners to participate actively.
“For instance, if a patient comes to the hospital and needs antibiotics, the doctor, ordinarily, would have recommended Augmentin but because the funds have been warehoused to him and he pays himself, he will give Amoxil or Amoxicillin and which is just like 2nd class drug, when he should have given the 1st class drug and this can only happen because of the way the policy is queued towards them.
Obideyi said the Association had on several occasions raised these issues with the State Commissioner for Health who is yet to address them. “The Commissioner kept giving all kinds of excuses. We have over 1,350 community pharmacists scattered all over the state. He expressed worry that the scheme may end up like the National Health Insurance Scheme at the federal level, adding that it was the same issues that brought NHIS to its knees.
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