Only 25% of medicines used in Nigeria are manufactured locally - Pharmacists

Date: 2018-04-16

NIGERIAN industrial Pharmacists weekend, decried absence of medicine security in the country, saying "only 25 percent of the total medicines used in the country are indigenously manufactured despite government policy that 70 per cent of medicines should be manufactured in the country.

Announcing its forthcoming 21st Annual National Conference billed to hold in Kwara, 17th April through 20th April, 2018, the industrial pharmacists under the auspices of Association of Industrial Pharmacists of Nigeria, NAIP, urged government to enact policies that would guarantee medicines security.

Speaking, the National chairman, Pharm. Ignatius Anukwu who described the environment in which they practice as 'strangulating' said water was the only local content that goes into medicines produced in Nigeria while other materials are imported.

Anukwu who noted that Nigeria depends largely on imported medicines for about 80 per cent of medicinal needs, declared that government has failed to give adequate protection to indigenous pharmaceutical companies.

He said: "The government has not given the industry reasonable patronage over the years. Where they did, the companies have been owed for months, or even years. As we speak, some of the companies have been owed for five years for supplies made to government.

"Notwithstanding, Nigeria Pharmaceutical industry has a potential market value of between U$800 million and more than U$2billion annually."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Haleeman Salman     Okin Malt     Aliyu Alhassan     Balogin Alanamu     Abdulfatai Baakini     Abdulazeez Arowona     Col. Taiwo     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Musa Aibinu     Quarry Royal Valley     Akume     Ayinde Oki     Facebook     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Ramadan     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Yahaya Muhammad     Oba-Solagberu     Owu Fall     Atiku     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Aliyu Adebayo     Kulende-UITH     Kwarareports     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Mahe Abdulkadir     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Ariyo     Tunji Olawuyi     Photo News     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Saliu Ajia     Emir Of Yashikira     Saliu Tunde Bello     Wahab Agbaje     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Ilorin Emirate     Olushola Saraki     Hamid Bobboyi     Adamu Attah     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Saidu Isa     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Issa Baba     Ajia-Bako     Yeketi     JSSCE     Budo-Egba     George Innih     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Www.Kwarareports.com     ITP     Sadiq Buhari     Guber Aspirant     NIRSAL     SAPZ Project     International Aviation College     MINILS     Kisira     Gobirawa     Ghali Muhammed     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Minister     Bamidele Aluko     Makama Of Kaiama     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Unilorin FM     Ilofa     Ilorin Durbar     Harrison Osauwagboe     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Lanre Olosunde     Kale Kawu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ibikunle Ogunleye     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     National Pilot     Saad Omo Iya     Binta Abubakar Mora     Prince Bola Ajibola     TESCOM 2025     Ndama Al-hassan     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Gbemisola Saraki     PPS     Tsaragi/Share     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Ilorin Metro Park     Manzuma     Sun Qing Rong     Ademola Kiyesola     Egbejila     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Oba Abdulrahim     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Emir Of Shonga     Oladimeji Thompson     Jimoh Bashir     Kawu     Olatunde Jare     Aisha Buhari     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Unilorin FM     Ariyo     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Undergraduate Bursary     Yahaya Muhammad     Balogun Gambari     Eruku     Kwarareports     Kale Belgore     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     National Information Technology Development Agency     Oba Of Jebba     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Otoge     Musa Abdullahi     SSUCOEN     Baaziki Sulaiman     Yinka Aluko     Aliyu Alhassan     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Nigeria Customs Service     Suleiman Abubakar     CELF     Alliance For Democracy     Yashikira     CKNG     Tunde Saad     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Ijagbo     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Col. Taiwo     Yaru     George Innih     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Wasiu Odewale     Edret Sabi Abel     Oloriegbe     Raji AbdulRasaq     Kola Olota     Dasuki Belgore     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Kwara Liberation Group