KANO DMCSA BULLETIN

By Farouk Isa Musa   The Director-General Kano State Drugs and Medical Consumables Supply Agency Pharm. Gali Sule, FPSN, and other delegation from across the country, has officially arrived Denmark to participate in the highly anticipated 83rd World Congress of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Sciences, bringing with them a strong commitment to advancing pharmaceutical practice, healthcare innovation, and international collaboration. Organized by the Federation of International Pharmacists, this year's conference, titled Copenhagen 2025 FIP World Congress, is taking place between 31 August and 3rd September 2025. The theme of the event is Pharmacy forward: Performance, Collaboration, and Health Transformation. Shading more light on the congress, Pharm. Sule said the program "aims to explore the evolving role of the pharmacy profession in the context of modern healthcare challenges. It will also explore how pharmacists can drive forward the performance of ...

By Newsdesk The Kano State Ministry of Health has continued to demonstrate its strong commitment to tackling malnutrition with the successful commencement of Day 3 of the Development and Costing Workshop for the State-Level Rollout and Scale-up of the Multiple Micronutrient Supplements (MMS) Roadmap 2025–2029. The workshop, chaired by the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, brought together government officials, health experts, development partners, and civil society organizations to deliberate on strategic approaches that will improve nutrition outcomes, especially for women and children across Kano State. The main goal of the workshop, according to a press statement issued by Nabilusi Abubakar Kofar-Na’isa, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, is to support Kano State in adapting Nigeria’s National MMS Roadmap (2025–2029) to its unique realities and to develop a costed implementation plan that aligns with the state’s priorities, syste...

By Farouk Isa Musa   To reflect the current realities as in line with global best practices, the Kano State Ministry of Health, through the Sustainable Health Commodity Supply System Committee (SHCSS C), in collaboration with the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) Lafiya Programme, has organized a pivotal workshop aimed at reviewing the current Drug Revolving Fund (DRF) Pricing Policy.  The DRF is a critical financing mechanism designed to ensure the sustainable availability of essential medicines through a cost-recovery system. However, changing economic conditions, inflationary trends, and supply chain challenges have necessitated a comprehensive review of the existing pricing framework. Declaring the workshop opened, Pharm. Aminu Bashir, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, who was represented by Prof. Salisu Ibrahim Ahmad, the Director-General State Primary Health Care Management Board, spoke extensively on the si...

By Editor  In a decisive move to restrategize and improve the information dessimination and publicizing the activities carried out in the health sector in Kano State, the Ministry of Health has organized a strategic, high-level meeting held Friday at Emergency Operations Center, Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital in the metropolis. The meeting, chaired by the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf brought together all Public Relations Officers (PROs), Senior Special Reporters (SSRs), Special Reporters (SRs) working under rhe ministry and its agencies.  The session focused on reviewing existing communication strategies, identifying gaps, and adopting new approaches to enhance health awareness and information dissemination, as contained in a press statement issued by Aminu Ahmad Turaki, the Public Relations Officer of Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency. Addressing the participants, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf under...

By Farouk Isa Musa   The National President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Pharm. Ayuba Tanko Ibrahim has, on Wednesday 30th July 2025, led the executive members of the association on a courtesy visit to the Kano Secretary to the State Government Alh. Umar Farouk Ibrahim. Speaking on the purpose of the visit, Pharm. Ibrahim said they were at the SSG's office to inform him about the PSN's planned annual national conference tagged 'Dabo 2025' which is scheduled to take place in November in Kano, and to also expressed their profound gratitude to the Kano State Government for supporting the association. Pharm. Ibrahim added that the courtesy call is part of the PSN's efforts to further deepen the collaboration with Kano State Government, which is aimed at strategically enhancing access to quality medicines and strengthening healthcare delivery systems in the state. The president further emphasized the critical role pharmacists play in achieving u...