Me2moro Magazine

Career Bowl
that I balance family and work and other
responsibilities so successfully.
Q
What advice will you give
someone who wants
to pursue a career in
pharmacy? Academics,
Character wise
You need to be very diligent in what you do,
you need to have patience to be a pharmacist,
you need patience in handling patients, you
need to be meticulous because you have to
observe patients and monitor their health. You
must keep in mind that you are dealing with
products and how they concern people’s health
and in effect their lives. For instance when
someone walks into a shop and asks to buy two
‘amoxicillin’ drugs, you don’t just give it to him
/her, directly refusing to dispense the drug can
also cause them to go elsewhere for the drug, so
as a pharmacist you have to step in and question
them, you need to be able to balance business
and the patients wellbeing, because clearly
other business minded / unqualified dispensers
will sell to them without caring.
Academically, the person should develop an
interest in chemistry and biology. Some have it
naturally; others will have to grow it. There are
schools of pharmacy in all the top universities
in Ghana. Students should do well in their
WASSCE exams in order to be admitted
into these schools if they have the interest in
pursuing a career in pharmacy.
model, so far as pharmacy is concerned, I have
friends who are pharmacists, whom I learned
a lot from growing into the profession, like
Thomas Appiah Adjei, he was as strict as he
was kind, he had patience to listen to you. To
him if anything is to be done it must be done
properly, integrity is key to him, he always says
“If you do it do it well.”
Q
Describe Pharmacy in one
word?
One word, hmm, I will say pharmacy is
‘Fulfilling’, the work I do is fulfilling, deep
down my heart, I love what I do and I do my
knowing I have done it.
Q
What is the next level for
you?
I want to move pharmacy from being just a
business to being a profession. I always say the
pharmacy profession is going down; I want
to re-vamp the pharmacy profession to move
pharmacy to where it’s supposed to be, to a
place where ‘to do pharmacy but not just sell
medicine’.
Q
Growing into the
profession, were there
people you looked
up to, role models?
I don’t really have mentors, I am my own role
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