The Annual General Meeting & Scientific Symposium of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists is billed to hold at the Kairaba Hotel Banjul, The Gambia from 15 to 17 April, 2024.
The theme of the conference, ‘Medicine Safety’ is to be delivered by two keynote speakers: Professor Pierre Gomez, The Gambian minister of higher education, and Dr Edit A. Annan from WHO Afro Office, Congo Brazaville.
Announcing the events marking this year’s meeting at a press conference, the Secretary General, WAPCP, Professor Ibrahim Adekunle Oreagba, disclosed that a total of Eighty one (81) students will be inducted as Fellows in various specialties offered by the College, having successfully passed the final examinations of the four-year Fellowship programme.
Other highlights of the opening ceremony include the investiture of two (2) Honorary Fellows, five (5) Foundation Fellows from three (3) Francophone countries (Benin, Senegal and Togo) and one (1) Lusophone country (Guinea Bissau); Nine (9) Elected Fellows from the West African region.
Among those elected as Fellows are the Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Moji Adeyeye: Director General, Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Dr Obi Adigwe; Former Director General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria, Pharm. Farouk Salim; Immediate Past President of the Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americas, Dr Teresa Pounds amongst others.
The current Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ms. Kachollom Shangti Daju, mni, and Dr Prosper Hiag (from Cameroun), current Vice-President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) are the recipients of the Honorary Fellow of the College.
An important event of the 4-day conference will be the academic presentation of conference abstracts by participants from the 5-member College: The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra-Leone.
The Annual General Meeting of the WAPCP is hosted by member-countries every year. The last time the meeting held in Banjul was in April 2018.
