ENUGU – The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has called on stakeholders in the medicine sales value-chain to actively join the agency to checkmate substandard and falsified medicines. The call was made in Enugu on Thursday by the Director of NAFDAC in South-East, Mr Martins Iluyomade, during a one-day NAFDAC Community Sensitisation on Substandard and Falsified Medicines in Nigeria. The sensitization meeting was attended by the community pharmacists, representative of traditional rulers and community leaders as well as the media.
Iluyomade said the war against substandard and falsified medicines involves all stakeholders in the medicine supply and sales value-chain to ensure an holistic fight and assured verifiable results in the near future. He said the culture of keeping silence should stop as medicine sales do not have profit gains implication only but it has many lives saving implications. “All of us have a duty to protect everyone around us against substandard and falsified medicines as we have to think of taking critical stand against those that engage in the unwholesome practice.
“As I speak, I am sure someone is somewhere still faking medicines and such injurious medicines find their into the drug markets and health facilities. “We should stand against substandard and falsified medicines and report to NAFDAC anyone selling or distributing chalks and other unwholesome substances as medicines,” he said. Speaking Earlier, Mr Col.