The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has ordered all Patent Medicine Vendors nationwide to stock and sell only the drugs listed in their yearly publications or face confiscation of products and sealing of their shops.
Registrar of PCN, Elijah Mohamed during a town hall meeting with Nigerian Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED) in Abuja recently explained that the agency organised the town hall meeting in order to create opportunity to foster discussion and rewarding interaction with the FCTNAPPMED members with a view to getting them properly enlightened to avoid excuses bothering on ignorance.
Mohammed added that the reasons for the licensing authorisation of nonpharmacist for stocking and selling of simple house hold medicine was to redress the lack of health facilities particularly in the rural and should not be seen as an opportunity for exploitation and disservice to Nigerians.
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He stressed that the aim for the meeting was to facilitate the assurance that NAPPMED members are adequately carried along in the implementation of PCN regulatory activities. “An important element of the National Drug Policy is to ensure availability and affordability of essential drugs, which are safe, effective and of good quality within the national health care delivery system.
“Further to this, an approved drug list for stocking and sales of drug in licensed patent medicine shop throughout Nigeria has been published and reviewed over the years.
The President of FCTNAPPMED, Comrade, Theophyllus Odoh, on behalf of union disclosed that the purpose of the town hall meeting is to demystify already existing believe among the members that PCN is not accessible and to further enhance a cordial relationship between PCN and NAPPMED.
Comrade Odoh appealed to PCN to consider and remove some of the beaurocratic bottleneck associated with issuance of licence by the agency which is posing a serious challenge to members of NAPPMED.
In highlighting some of the challenges he said “in a situation where members of NAPPMED who are coming new to establish patent medicine shop are asked to bring the receipt of three years tax which the cost is estimated between N70,000 and N100,000 is not fair and discourages members.”
By: Obinna Odoh
New Telegraph News
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