Ademola Adegbite The Director General of the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has raised the alarm over the high level of fake, substandard and falsified drugs in Nigeria. She decried the act at a one-day sensitisation campaign programme, held at Ibadan Business School in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Adeyeye, who was represented by the Zonal Director of the agency, Roselyn Ajayi, warned that fake and substandard products could negatively impact users due to the effect of the drugs on their bodies. The NAFDAC DG said one of the strategies the agency intended to use to curb the menace was to embark on aggressive sensitisation and engagement of different stakeholders, particularly those in the distribution of healthcare products like medicine. “Our survey has shown that the level of prevalence of substandard and falsified products is high across the nation.
“The outcome of such survey necessitated the need for sensitisation and engagement of the healthcare providers to interact on how the prevalence of substandard and falsified medicine can be reduced. “From the experiences and survey report, it was observed that fakers and counterfeiters are getting smarter and faster, taking advantage of the possibilities and opportunities of advancement in technology, hence the sensitisation and campaign programme, she said. She added that participants have been shown “what we have discovered on the field.
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