KWSG Charges NAFDAC to Intensify Campaign Against Fake Drugs



Kwara State Government has charged the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), to intensify efforts at addressing issues of fake and substandard drugs and food, to enhance healthy living of the people.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina Ahmed El-Imam, who gave the charge today in her office, while receiving the State Coordinator of the Agency, urged them to ensure compliance with standard with the aim of checkmating the activities of herbal producers.

El-Imam lamented the activities of some of these quacks making false claims, adding that they must be checked as a matter of urgency, in order not to endanger people's health.

She also stressed further that the Agency should beam it's searchlight on quacks who misled members of the public with the advertisement of their herbal products, "as Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is very much committed to the delivery of quality healthcare services to the state. 

She further assured that the Government is ready to collaborate with the agency, to enable it carryout its statutory duties as expected.

"The present administration in the state is ready to reactivate the state Taskforce Committee on drug, to checkmate the problem of fake and substandard drugs and food." She added.

The State Coordinator, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Pharm. Nadabo Nathan in his remarks informed the Commissioner that, the visit was mainly to familiarize the agency with the ministry in order to fashion out a way of collaborating with the government, to curb the menace of quacks, across the state.

The Coordinator therefore appealed to government to reactivate a State Taskforce on Drug, so as to assist and ease the agency's job.

Nathan thereafter expressed the Agency's gratitude to government, for her supports at all times, to ensure that the agency succeed in its statutory duties.

In another development, the Commissioner today received the leadership of the Association of Resident Doctors, Kwara State University Teaching Hospital (KWASUTH), chapter, in her office.

The newly elected executive members led by its President, Dr Abdulfatai Abdulazeez paid a familiarization visit to the Commissioner, in anticipation of an harmonious working relationship between the Ministry and the Association.

Sa'ad Hamdalat
Press Secretary,
MoH
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