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.

Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Sheriff Shagaya     Teachers Specific Allowance     Mutawali     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Michael Nzwekwe     Iponrin     Funmilayo Zubair     Sodiya     Jaigbade Alao     Bola Olukoju     Joseph Bamigboye     Jaiz Bank     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Ejidongari     Apaokagi     Awodun     Mohammed Ibrahim     University Road     Tafida     Iqra Books     Kola Adesina     Oja-Oba     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Ramadan     Baba Isale     Orire     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Olabode George Towoju     Abdulwahab Ololele     Alikinla     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Saka Saadu     Dele Momodu     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     International Vocational Centre     Seed Technologies     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     CCEPE     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Senate President     Rotimi Atere     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Yahaya Dumoye     Amada Jidda     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Sebastine Obasi     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Nupe     IF-K     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Kwara Basketball Association     Onilorin Of Ilorin     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Bio Ibrahim     JSSCE     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     AGILE Programme     Igbaja     Kwara Restoration Project     Sayomi     Abubakar Atiku     Local Government     Hassan Oyeleke     Olaiya Lawal     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Kwara State Television     Arandun     Shagari     Nnazua     Yusuf Lawal     Kunbi Titiloye     Saeedat Aliyu     Kehinde Baale     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Busari Alabi Alausa     Apaokagi     Ilorin.Info     Shehu Adaramaja     Alore     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Olaitan Buraimoh     Otoge     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Saheed Popoola     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Kulende     Oloyede     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Razak Atunwa     COVID     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Oni Adebayo     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Kwara Apc     Zulu Gambari     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Ahman Pategi     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Lateef Alagbonsi     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Damilola Yusuf     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Neo Mundo Ltd     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Ahmad Lawan     Bello Bature     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Magaji Nda     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Marafan Shonga     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Alapansapa     Sarah Alade     Gabriel Fashanu     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Turaki Of Ilorin     Baba-Isale     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Pacify Labs     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Mohammed Danjuma     Aremu Bose Deborah     Quarry Royal Valley     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Raymond Olaitan     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Olatunde Michaels     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Reuben Paraje     Michael Nzekwe     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     CCT     Olaiya Zuberu     Abioye Bello     Bayer AG     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Ballah     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Tunde Saad     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Popo-Igbonna     Ashiru     KWSIEC     Isiaka AbdulRazaq