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Kitale, Transnzoia County

Key Contributions• Selecting, quantifying, procuring and warehousing of medical supplies; monitoring effective storage and making entries into the relevant inventory management records and registers. • Participating in ward rounds to monitor medicine use, interactions and adverse drug reactions.• Carrying out continuing medical education for health workers in general.• Conducting health education on appropriate use of medicines to patients; participating in multidisciplinary clinical team activities of patient care.• Reporting adverse drug reactions and poor quality medicines.• Timely preparation of relevant monthly reports and submission to relevant offices.• Training and mentoring of interns and students attached to the facility. • Keeping safe custody and maintenance of up to date narcotic and psychotropic substances records; running of poison information centers.• Disseminating and providing new drug information to health workers and the general public.• Supervising pharmaceutical services at lower level health facilities.

Kitale, Kenya

Key Contributions• Conducted prescription processing and patient counselling.• Processed adverse events cases, reported and conducted follow-ups.• Participated in medical ward rounds.• Medicines reconciliation.• Conducted and participated in continuous medical education.• Supervised pharmacists’ interns and pharmaceutical technologists’ interns.• Actively participated in pharmacovigilance activities.• Stock inventory management of drugs.• Championed infection prevention and control in the hospital.

Key Contributions• Led a team of research assistants for a study titled ‘Preliminary exploration of infection prevention and control in Kenyan hospital and antibiotic stewardship to avert antibiotic resistance in Kenyan hospitals’ by KEMRI Wellcome trust and Kenya pediatric association.

Key Contributions• Managed prescription processing and inventory management.• Provided medication counselling to patients.• Prescribed class 2 medicines.

Key Contributions• Prepared product dossiers.• Performed quality control procedures and product stability.• Participated in literature review in preparation for production of a new product.• Reviewed standard operating procedures literature for production of a product.

Key Contributions• Prescription processing and patient counselling.• Inventory management; managed medicines and medical items in the hospitals inventory management system.• Received and issued drugs inter- and intra-facilities.• Participated in medical ward rounds and review of treatment sheets.

Eldoret, Kenya

Key Contributions• Prescription processing and patient counselling.• Stock inventory management.• Participated in clinical rounds.

Master'S Degree, Pharmacy In Pharmacovigilance And Pharmacoepidemiology

Bachelor’S Degree, Pharmacy