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To become a pharmacy technician, you need to take classes in school approved by the pharmacists council of Nigeria (PCN) for the programme. This will guide you through the trade in three years. The school involves lectures, practical classes and externship before a final examination. The curriculum trains you to excel in hospital or retail pharmacy. The training acquired helps you address the needs of the patients and pharmacist you work with. School of pharmacy technicians are scattered around the country. Some states have more than one. Man are government own institution with few private. As long as all the schools here have been approved, they are all good. There will only be a slight difference in the curriculum which differ based on some topics that focus on pharmacy need in that state. Read Also : Career opportunity for pharmacy technician The list is always updated as more schools get approved for this. Pharmacy technician Name Of Colleges/Schools Of Health Technology 1. College...

One thing people notice when they shave the hair around their anus is the sudden increase in the sound of fart coming out. Some think the number of times they fart increases. Attempts to keep the sound low may only help a little. And this is what people hate the most for their fart in public to make a sound. Another aspect is the smell that comes with some. Read Also: Never share these things as a couple Before shaving the anus hair, smelling farts are soundless. It is the odourless fart that makes a loud sound. After shaving the hair around the anus, they come out now with a vibration that alerts everybody around to the source of the smell. Humans can search for ringing phones, alarm bells but not the source of a fart. But what can be done to reduce the sound and the smell? To answer this, let us see how farts come about. Origin Of Fart Farts are gaseous waste in the body. The gas needs to be removed from the body. And we fart about half a gallon (19 litre) of gas each day. Not all f...

Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are some of the few drugs under clinical trials for the treatment of covid-19. However, the world health organization (WHO) recently suspended the trails. This was due to a report from Lancet on the safety concern. They said the drug is likely the cause for an increase in covid-19 patients dying. Many countries joined WHO and pulled the plug. There are many debates aboubt the move by WHO. It is a normal process in the face of a new drug. But hydroxychloroquine is a registered drug used previously for treating malaria and rheumatoid arthritis well tolorated. Is it really necessary to suspend the trials due to one report from one side of the world? What if the drug is race dependent and is suitable for other parts of the world? Here is what the world thinks. Read Also : Why chloroquine was ban in Nigeria Race And Drugs There have been countless debates as to how drugs work for different races. The major debate has been on hypertension among black-americ...

Loss of taste and smell is a common complaint by sick persons now. The surge in this symptom coincided with when it was added as one of the symptoms of covid-19. As a community pharmacist working in Lagos State which is the epicenter of covid-19 in Nigeria, the fear is always about covid-19. This line of thought is causing more harm. This is because most of those sick are usually advised to go for a covid-19 test. And it takes a long time for covid-19 result to be made available. And it could be dangerous if it is not covid-19 all the while. Read Also : Treatment for covid-19 patient in isolation centers Loss of taste has always been around. It is just that many people don't seem to know it. The covid-19 awareness brought it out to limelight as many people now know that it can also be a symptom of a disease. There are so many causes for the loss of taste and smell. It can be due to aging which affects those above 60 years of age. It could also be a symptom of another disease. Some ...

There are devices used to measure blood pressure. But they all depend on a single principle. The gold standard is the manual Mercury column sphygmomanometer and stethoscope. A sphygmomanometer is a device that measures blood pressure. It consists of an inflatable rubber cuff which is wrapped around the arm. The inflation is achieve with a bulb that is regulated by a valve. The Mercury is in a calibrated column that indicates the cuff pressure. A stethoscope is used to listen to the sound. It consists of a diaphragm with 2 flat circular parts where the wider side contains a thin plastic and an earpiece connected with a tube to the diaphragm. Mercury sphygmomanometer Android sphygmomanometer and stethoscope Another sphygmomanometer is the aneroid. It is the same with the Mercury column sphygmomanometer in terms of working principle. The only difference is that the Mercury column is replaced with a metal bellows-watch like movement. This bellows-watch is connected to the compression cuff....

I know you want to know what those blood pressure measurements mean. When you visit the hospital for treatment, the nurses do take vital signs. One of them is the blood pressure reading. They either use a sphygmomanometer and stethoscope or a digital blood pressure measuring device. The reading always comes with two figures. An upper and lower number. Read Also : How to measure blood pressure using digital device As we age, the need to regularly check blood pressure increases. Understanding the figure can mean life and death. Those figures tell alot about a person's health. The goal is to keep it at normal range. High blood pressure can lead to heart attack, heart failure, stroke and kidney disease. In this blog post, we will see the definition of blood pressure, the meaning of those figures in blood pressure measurement and its significance. One funny thing is that the accepted normal range has remained the same over the years.  But the classification of hypertension (high blood p...