How poor pay, limited opportunities frustrate pharmacy graduates in Nigeria

15 May 2022

It is noteworthy to state that pharmacy students are trained to practice in different subspecialties of the profession while in school. After graduation, a trained pharmacist can choose to be a community pharmacist, hospital pharmacist, academic pharmacist, or industrial pharmacist among other options in the pharmaceutical sector.

“During my IT days, I worked majorly in the factory, I passed through different units. I started work in the liquid preparation unit where we manufactured suspensions, syrups, and all of that. I also worked in the laboratory unit where quality control analysis was done,” Folorunsho told our correspondent.

Their monthly pay, according to him, is paltry when compared with those of pharmacists practicing in hospitals or those in pharmaceutical marketing.

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