By AGGREY OMBOKIMore by this AuthorUndergraduates at the Pharmacy Students Association of Kenya (Kephsa) have called for the withdrawal of sections of Health Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018, saying it will dilute professionalism. The diploma pharmaceutical technicians course that takes 18 months. University students in the Pharmacy Students Association of Kenya (Kephsa) demonstrate along Haile Selassie Avenue in Nairobi County on November 5, 2018, against the passing of Health Amendment Bill, 2018, which seeks to group them with pharmaceutical technologists, who are diploma holders. DEGREEDr Christine Ndanu, a pharmacy student at the University of Nairobi, with a diploma in pharmaceutical technology, told the Nation that there is no law against diploma students advancing their qualifications. If diploma students wish to be recognised as pharmacists, let them go back to school just as I did,” said Dr Ndanu.

Source: Daily Nation November 05, 2018 18:22 UTC