Pharmacy board organised training workshop for health workers
The Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone started a two day training workshop on Drug Safety Monitoring for healthcare providers in Freetown on 11 August 2010. The training is aimed at improving surveillance, monitoring and reporting practices of healthcare providers on the adverse reaction of pharmaceutical products.
In his introductory address, Dr Alhassan Sesay, Director of Primary Healthcare and Deputy CMO, said “it was important to monitor patients, their treatment and the effects of the drug administered to them”. He further stated “counterfeit pharmaceutical products pose serious challenges to the effective delivery of the Free Healthcare and other medical services in the country.”