To produce Pharmacy Assistants who will provide high quality pharmaceutical services including pharmaceutical logistics and supply chain management, pharmacovigilance, and effective management of health commodities at community health centre level.


This module introduces the learner to basic managerial aspects of health centre function.


This module introduces the learner to basic first aid interventions that a health worker should perform in emergency situations.


This module introduces the learner to basic principles of effective communication and counselling in a health care setting.


This module builds on the existing basic knowledge gained from other courses including sociology, psychology, pathology, parasitology as well as microbiology. It will enable the student to acquire knowledge, attitude and skills necessary for the provision of pharmaceutical community services that enhance the prevention of diseases thereby promoting and maintaining health of the individual, family and communities at large.

 


This course describes the structure and function of common pathogens, and the prevention and epidemiology of infectious diseases.


This course describes how different forms of medicines are made, tested for quality and stored for human use.

This course introduces basic chemistry in order that students will understand the physico-chemical processes involved in manufacture and use of medicines.


This course describes the activity of medicines, their effect on normal and diseased tissues and the body’s reaction to medicines.

This course explains how normal pathology and anatomy are disturbed by disease and shows how this leads to signs and symptoms of illness.


This module course describes the structure and function of the human body, as a preparation for understanding disease and medicine treatment.