NAFDAC To Reduce Drug Importation From 70% to 30% By 2025
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is working on reducing importation of drugs from its present 70 percent to 30 percent by 2025.
Speaking on Wednesday, in Lagos, Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC director-general, says this could be achieved through increased local manufacturing of drugs. THE CABLE reports.
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“We are using multifaceted approaches to curb substandard and falsified medicine in the country”.
“If a country is over-dependent on importation of medicine, such country will get substandard drugs and if not for COVID-19, we wouldn’t have woken up from our slumber as a country.Information Guide Nigeria
“When I started my tenure, local manufacturing of medicine became my focus because when you increase local manufacturing you are not just giving more jobs or increasing the GDP”.
“Most, importantly, you are safeguarding the health of the nation because if somebody is falsifying something in Ota, for example, we can get there within one hour and something like that had happened before”. jamb results
“A country that is not drug secure is not secured in other facets.”
“We have read our riot act to drugs manufacturers who bring their drugs to the country if they want to be friends in trade with Nigeria”.
“If they want to be friends with us, they should do what we want and not send what will kill our people and that is why we have tightened shipment of drugs into the country.
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