Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii.
Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Dr. Paul Orhii, has lamented the negative effects of open-market pharmacies in Nigeria.
The NAFDAC boss verbally expressed the agency had concluded plans to cease the operation of the operation in the country starting from July 2014.
Orhii verbalized during the inauguration of a pharmaceutical facility worth N70m, built by Worldwide Commercial Ventures Limited in Matori, Lagos.
Orhii verbalized, “This pharmaceutical facility came at the right time when the Federal Regime has authoritatively mandated a close down of every open-market pharmaceutical businesses in the country. From July 2014, we are going to close down open-market pharmacies. You ken drugs are chemicals. If you have them in an open place, sometimes, they react.
“I believe the incipient pharmaceutical facility, would favour all Nigerians. The company has responded to the desideratum of Nigerians at the time we require it most. They have withal responded to the Federal Regime directive.”
The Managing Director, Worldwide Commercial Ventures Limited, Mr. Ananth Narayan, noted that the company targeted building a pharmaceutical facility that would compete auspiciously with those found in other components of the world.
He verbalized regime support was needed to maintain the facility, integrating that efficacious regulation would avail the pharmaceutical industry to grow.
Narayan verbalized, “Investing in the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria is not a facile thing, sometimes it takes three or four years to get benefits from investments. We require the efforts of regulatory body to control the business in Nigeria.”
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