Personal information
Biography
Yusto Julius Yona is an oncology, bone marrow and infectious diseases pharmaceutical technician currently working in the Oncology and Pharmacy department at the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as Oncology Pharmaceutical Technician. He holds Holding diploma in pharmacy, with outstanding experience serving as a medicines dispenser in specialized and super specialization clinics, including cancer medicines and immune-suppressants, cardiovascular drugs and kidney transplant medicines.
He is a pharmaceutical technician trained for bone marrow transplant where his roles are, forecasting, quantification, ordering and storage of bone medicines and medical supplies. Moreover, reconstitution, administration, side effect monitoring and adverse effect surveillance are the abilities and part of his daily routine. Further, under pharmacist guidance in the Department of oncology, he played a great role in drug reconciliation and therapeutic drug monitoring.
Understanding concepts of biosimilar and biologics as drugs inspector are other area and task as the pharmaceutical technician to advice distributor and procurements officer in purchasing, quality and safety.
He is trained, as a pharmaceutical technician in the hematology units. To attend and advise prescribers, and nurses of best pharmacy, prescribing, and administration practices. In the same line as a heamto-onco pharmaceutical technician, He attended and provided education on the rational use of medicines to hemophilic, hematology malignant, and sickle cell patients at the Benjamin Mkapa hospital. His previous working experiences with Kaitale Pharmacy, in 2021, Dreamland Pharmacy in 2020, and Primrose Pharmacy, in 2021, as a medicines dispenser in community pharmacies. He attained extraordinary experience in pharmaceutical care that qualifies him to deal with different types of clients to their satisfaction.
He is a committed Pharmaceutical personnel, having trained for infectious diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States of America with a better understanding of rational antimicrobial use and infectious prevention control but also, he is also certified by the Pharmacy Council.