We stopped shipment of 80 bad drugs from China, India — Adeyeye
Director-General, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has stopped the shipment of more than 80 medicine products from China and India over fraudulent activities by the manufacturers, even as Nigeria is set to begin the production of vaccines by the end of 2022.
The Director-General of these Agency, Prof Christiana Adeyeye, who spoke to journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, disclosed that the agency has procured 40 units of a handheld device valued at $57,000 dollars each, capable of detecting the quality and quantity of medicinal products in the country.
Adeyeye explained that in an effort to reduce the percentage of fake products in the country, the agency toured 19 pharmaceutical companies in China and India.
Credit: Vanguard News