Dear brothers and sisters,
My name is Nadjima MOHAMED from Gnadomboeni. I am a second year student in the University of Conakry
in Guinea and I am studying to be a chemist.
I have just read an article in this website saying that you are planning to run a pharmacy in our beloved
village. I am so pleased because I always dream of running one after having finished my studies. Thank you
for the support.
I would also like to congratulate the pupils who succeeded in their Advanced Level Examination (Baccalaureate)
this year 2008. We all have the responsibility of giving them information about what they will face at the
different Universities and Collages of the world. That is why I chose to provide for them some information
which may allow them to have an idea about Pharmacy. And I am convinced that if all the Gnadomboenians who
have had the opportunity of being in a collage or University do the same, our successful candidates will
not ignore what they will have soon and will be prepared for it.
Pharmacy is the art of preparing and conserving drugs. It means also a place in which medicines are stored and
dispensed. Chemists can work in different domains such as the dispensary, at University as lecturers, in
pharmaceutical industries, in laboratories …, but what I like most is the dispensary. In the dispensary, the
chemist can be an assistant, a manager or an agent. The chemist must take his time to analyse the prescription
to verify if there are no incompatibilities between the drugs prescribed and see if the drugs match the
patient’s disease, for instance, if the drug prescribed is an anti-inflammatory one, he has to make sure that
the patient is not suffering from gastritis; or if the drug is an antibiotic, he has to make sure that the
patient is not allergic. He must also make sure whether the dosage prescribed is the right one or not, for the
doctor can make mistakes and the chemist is worth to correct him.
Pharmacists’ function is not only limited to that, they can, as well, make brilliant concoctions ordered by a
doctor, they can be charged to give medical care to wounded people; in short, chemists’ functions are numerous
and of course the student discovers them as he moves on in the faculty.
Brothers and sisters, we have to help our village to move forward and we should know that a chemist must work
with a doctor and a biologist. So I think that our 2008 successful candidates will think about this because
we have to work together.
Nadjima MOHAMED
student in Pharmacy at the
University of Conakry in Guinea