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SHOPS SEALED OFF IN ONDO FOR SELLING ILLEGAL DRUGS






The Ondo State Joint Task Force on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs has clamped down on illegal Patient Vendors in some locations around the state and sealed off such shops.



The Chairman of the State Joint Task Force on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs ,Pharmacist Olugbenga Lasekan who led the team to Ayede Ogbese and Shasha Market decried the recalcitrant attitude of most Patient Medicine Vendors in areas visited, as they open premises without recourse to rules of practice. 


Pharm.Lasekan said by rules laid down by the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN) , no medicine outlet should be opened without consulting the PCN for approval ,Premises should not be cited in Filling Stations,Markets, Motor Parks and Containers should not also be used as shopsto sell or dispense medicine.

 



According to  his words, " Shops that open without following the  laid down rules and are not licensed and illegal to operate, while Drugs without NAFDAC registration are fake". 



Adding that, by the Rules of Practice,  Patient Medicine Vendors have list of drugs they are permitted to sell, which does not include Antibiotics, Injections and Control Drugs. 


 While the Chairman posits that medicine are not  allowed to be hawk , saying the drugs are supposed to be stored under certain temperature which the practice of hawking violates thus making the drugs dangerous for human consumption. 


He added that that the State has zero tolerance for fake, adulterated and unwholesome products as well as illegal premises and will not rest on its oars until the state is ridden of defaulters.






He warned that the State will not hesitate to prosecute recalcitrant vendors and association leaders who aid and abeit illegality, while advising vendors to go and obtain their Licenses from PCN, to avoid constant harassment and embarrasment.


Pharm. Lasekan expressed delight at the success made at the  outing ,as he said the right signal has been sent, that the State has zero tolerance for illegality.


He advised residents to always buy their drugs from licensed Patient Medicine Vendors or Pharmacies across the state.


While the control drugs found in possession of Patients Medicine Vendors visited were confiscated with a total of ten shops were sealed off by this Joint Task Force on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs which comprise of the Ministry of Health, NAFDAC, NDLEA, PCN and the Nigeria Police Force.

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