by the increasing challenges of drug abuse and misuse in Nigeria, pharmacists under the aegis of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, have pleaded with President Mohammadu Buhari to assent to the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria Bill 2017 in the interest of Good Pharmacy Practice in the country.
In the plea addressed to the executive arm of the Federal government to facilitate assent of the bill, the ACPN affirmed that the Bill is consistent with similar laws in the Commonwealth League of Nations, where regulatory laws and statutes have become very sacred in keeping pace with the norms and ethos of public health.
“These satellite pharmacies in turn have mandate to provide oversight in a manner of hub and spoke model over the Patent and Proprietary Medicines Vendors thereby improving their regulation.”ACPN observed that enforcement of sales of medicines in only registered pharmacies and patent medicines stores is the only way to permanently redress the menace of drug abuse and falsified drug syndrome in Nigeria.
ACPN argued that the PCN bill has removed all ambiguities with regards to offences and relevant commensurate sanctions applicable to all players.
vanguardngr Faster plz
vanguardngr Pls let it be fast