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A row has risen between two organisations over proposed amendments to laws regulating the pharmaceutical sector.
The proposed amendments require the regulator to establish or prescribe the different categories of pharmacy business and scopes of practice of persons registered (pharmacists) or enrolled (pharmaceutical technologists), a move the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya (PSK) claims will “lower the level of recognition’ of pharmacists.
And the Kenya Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) has come out fighting what it terms attempts by PSK to mislead the public over what is contained in the Bill that went through the second reading in Parliament on Tuesday.
“The proposed amendments made to CAP 244 (Pharmacy and Poisons ACT) through the omnibus Bill - Health Laws amendment Bill No.14 of 2018 only bring to the forefront what stakeholders have always agitated for; streamlining of Pharmacy Practice,” said KPA chair Patrick Adera.
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