The Department is saddle with the responsibility of providing Pharmaceutical services to all categories of patients and also provision of drug information to other health care providers.
PHARMACY FUNCTIONAL UNITS
MAIN PHARMACY:
The main pharmacy caters for all patients on admission from 8am - 4pm on week days
N.H.I.S PHARMACY:
This unit caters for NHIS and retainership patients from 8am - 9pm on week days and 9am - 2pm on weekends
ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY PHARMACY:
This unit caters for all accident and emergency cases and other wards. The unit offers 24hrs pharmaceutical services.
GOPD PHARMACY:
The unit caters for all out-patients from the clinics from 8am - 6pm on week days and 9am - 2pm on weekends
ARV CLINIC PHARMACY:
Here is a unit where HIV patients access their services. It is usually opened from 8.am – 4.pm (Monday to Friday)
PAEDIATRICS PHARMACY:
This unit take cares of all paediatric drug challenges and also offer services to the intensive care unit (ICU) and the Female Medical Ward. It offers 24hrs services.
PHARMACY STORE:
This is saddled with the procurement and distribution of Pharmaceutical and other Hospital consumables.
PHARMACY SERVICES
SERVICES PROVIDED BY HOSPITAL SERVICES
The services rendered by pharmacists in hospital setting include:
- Procurement, storage and distribution of medicines
- Processing and filling of prescriptions:
- In-patients dispensing
- Patients counseling
- Pharmaceutical care services
- Compounding and sterile dispensing
- Unit dose dispensing system (UDDS)
- Drug information services (DIS)
- Pharmacovigilance
- Satellite pharmacy operation
- Drug revolving fund system (DRS) management
- Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)
- Quality control and quality assurance
- Professional seminars and clinical presentation
- Hospital formulary and essential drug list
- Operational research (OR)
- Clinical ward round
STAFF STRENGTH
The Department is composed of the following staff:
- 3 Asst. Directors
- 1 Chief Pharmacist
- 3 Principal Pharmacists
- 1 Senior Pharmacists
- 4 Pharmacists I
- 4 Locum Pharmacists
- 7 Intern Pharmacists
- 2 Corps Members
- 9 Pharmacy Technicians
- 1 Confidential Secretary
- 9 Clerks.
- 1 Scientific Officer
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
The Department is headed by: Pharm. Cordelia K. Drai
