Pharmacist Council of Nigeria Goes Hard on Pharmacies
Track Upnews
18 November 2022
About 381 pharmacies and patent shops in Akwa Ibombeen sealed by The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria said on Friday for various offences.
TheDirector and Head of Enforcement Department, Stephen Esumobi, made this known while briefing newsmen in Uyo, the state capital.
He said most of affected shops were sealed for offences such as operating without registration or renewal of premises certificates, unauthorized sales of medicines, and poor access control to the poison cupboard.
Others offences included poor storage facilities and temperature control, stocking and sale of prescription, and other ethical products by the patent medicine vendors.
He said that the enforcement team, in continuation of the current drive by the council to streamline the drug distribution system, visited 727 premises comprising 559 patent medicine shops and 168 pharmacies.
Esumobi said, “The PCN enforcement team has been in Akwa Ibom State since the beginning of the week in continuation of the current drive by the council to streamline the drug distribution system in the country.
He said the primary areas of focus of the PCN enforcement team are premises, personnel, and practice adding that is an offence for any stakeholder to operate a pharmaceutical business in a location that has not been approved by PCN.”
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