Tendai is one of the honourable mention winners in our 2026 International Pharmacy Graduates essay contest.
"I didn’t come to Canada to start over but that’s exactly what happened!I didn’t come to Canada to start over but that’s exactly what happened!"
I gained admission into Pharmacy School 25 years ago in Nigeria at the age of 17. My decision to study pharmacy had nothing to do with a deep love for drugs or humanity or anything of the sort.
When I was about five years old, my parents opened their first community pharmacy. Because our home was right above the pharmacy, I grew up surrounded by prescriptions, medications, and patient conversations.
For months, Dr. Pauline Lois Fenty failed to respond to multiple emails, letters, phone calls and voicemails from her patients seeking medical paperwork and investigators from the college.
B.C. pharmacy college registrar says expanded accountability and discipline changes are redefining regulation, but public safety needs to remains the bottom line.
The researchers say a more transparency through a national registry could facilitate better communication between law enforcement and regulators, as well as regulators from different jurisdictions.
