The outgoing President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN Alhaji Ahmed Yakassai has given the outgoing executives led by him a pass mark.

Yakasaai submitted that his team has lived up to the promises upon which they took office.

He made the submission at the ongoing 91st annual conference of the society tagged " Innovative Distruption in Pharmacy in Emerging Economies: A Road Map For Nigeria," holding in Ibadan.

He said, "It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the 91st annual conference of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria. Today is the last day that I will address you on an occasion like this as the President of our noble society."

"I was given the mandate to lead as President of PSN- the oldest and the most organized professional body in Nigeria- at the 88th annual conference in Abuja.

It was this trust that gave me the courage and strength to dedicate my life to the service of our humble society. My mission was to strengthen the pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria with cooperative, participatory, responsive and transparent leadership."

He expressed happiness that PSN championed the course of improving the health care delivery system in Nigeria. He added that his leadership made updating and improving the element of PSN, running an accountable and transparent organization, creating an efficient and responsive forum a priority.

"I don't want to sound immodest or unnecessarily blow our trumpets but I must say we have kept our promises. We have served our noble profession with our body, mind and soul. I have sacrifised my time, businesses and purpose to justify the confidence reposed in me to lead our society."

He also highlighted some of the things achieved by the PSN during his tenure like the reclaiming of the PSN Victoria Island property; launching of Medicine Information Centre licensed by the UK Medicine Information Centre to provide pharmaceutical information to healthcare providers; inauguration of the PSN narcotics and drug abuse committee among others.

According to him, "I made deliberate strategic efforts to buld partnership among our technical groups towards professional and national development to demonstrate that pharmacists can make the country proud by looking inwards to produce medicine for our people."