The President, Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, has called on regulatory agencies to check the illegal sale of medicines in the country.
The former minister of health made this call at the investiture of six pharmacists as fellows of the academy in Lagos.
Adelusi-Adeluyi, who condemned the indiscriminate sale of prescription drugs by artisans, urged the Federal Government to clamp down on the activities of traders in open drug markets across the country.
He noted that the activities of drug 'hawkers' had increased drug-related fatalities. Adelusi-Adeluyi said, "Traders hawk wheel-barrow-loads of antibiotics and other medicines across the streets of Nigeria. This has worsened the scenario of antibiotic resistance.
"These unscrupulous traders still connive with similar-minded manufacturers to produce fake and adulterated medicines. They capitalise on the poverty and, sometimes, the ignorance of millions of people who patronise them."
The Registrar, Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, Mr.Elijah Mohammed, who was also inducted into the academy, identified indiscriminate access to drugs and the presence of open market in the country as a factor that had allowed drug hawking to thrive.
According to him, the Federal Government will shut down open drug markets by 2017. He said, "The misuse of drugs is mostly caused by the fact that Nigerians have unfettered access to them. In the open drug market, antibiotics are sold by anyone to anybody."
By: Bukola Adebayo
The Punch News
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