Pharmacists under the umbrella of Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN) have attributed the payment of their enhanced hazard allowance to the bridge-building efforts of the President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Pharm. (Mazi) Sam Ohuabunwa.
The pharmacists, who joined other eminent Nigerians and pharmacists in celebrating the PSN president, who newly joined the league of septuagenarians on Sunday, said he was instrumental to their receipt of the COVID-19 enhanced hazard allowance, through the Memorandum of Understanding he signed with other healthcare unions.
In a tribute to Ohuabunwa sent to Pharmanewsonline and signed by the National Chairman, AHAPN, Dr Kingsley Amibor, the association expressed its delight to join in celebrating the iconic pharmacist, who has impacted the group in no small measure within the short period he has spent in office.
The association stated: ”Your bridge-building efforts and Memorandum of Understanding entered into with other leading unions in the healthcare sector has resulted in healthcare workers reaping enhanced payment of COVID-19 hazard allowance from government.
“You have championed and still championing advocacy to government with a view to solving the challenges encountered by pharmacists in Nigeria’s healthcare sector. God will give you the grace and favour to finish well as PSN President”, it prayed.
Below is the full text of the tribute:
The Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN) felicitates with our Daddy and President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa MON, OFR, NPOM, FPSN, FPCPharm, FNAPharm on the occasion of your 70th Birthday.
We proudly identify with you on this your special day. Within the short of being in office, you have successfully integrated hospital and Administrative pharmacists into the PSN fold and given our members a sense of belonging in PSN, a process started by your predecessor, Pharm. Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai Fpsn and other PSN presidents .
Your bridge-building efforts and Memorandum of Understanding entered into with other leading unions in the healthcare sector has resulted in healthcare workers reaping enhanced payment of COVID-19 hazard allowance from government.
You have championed and still championing advocacy to government with a view to solving the challenges encountered by pharmacists in Nigeria’s healthcare sector. God will give you the grace and favour to finish well as PSN President.
We thank God Almighty for the gift of a true help meet to you, in the person of Mrs Stella Sam Ohuabunwa, a wife and mother indeed, who has been standing by you through thick and thin.
We wish you many more years of service to God and humanity in sound health and peace of mind.
70 hearty cheers to a quintessential, amiable and altruistic leader.
Happy Birthday Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa. Congratulations Sir.
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