‘It’s dangerous to import 70 per cent of medicines’ – Pharmacists tell Tinubu

Pharmacists nether the auspices of Association of Industrial Pharmacists of Nigeria (NAIP), person declared that is it precise unsafe for Nigeria to import 70 per cent of its medicines. 

The association, portion describing the concern arsenic unfortunate and worrisome, appealed to the national authorities nether the enactment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to find ways to enactment section accumulation of drugs and different items successful the country.

The pharmacists explained that this volition assistance to trim Nigeria’s dependence connected imported medicines and presumption the state arsenic the pharmaceutical hub of Africa.

National Chairman of NAIP, Pharmacist Bankole Ezebuilo, made these declarations during the 29th yearly nationalist league and grooming of NAIP members held successful Ilorin, Kwara State with the taxable “Collaboration and Innovation to Build Local Solutions for the Future of Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Industry”. 

The lawsuit was attended by Commissioner for Finance successful Kwara State, Dr Hauwa Nuru, Commissioner for Social Welfare Dr Mariam Nana Fatima Imam, Commissioner for Communication, Hon. Bolanle Olukoju, and Executive Secretary of the Hospital Management Board, Abdulraheem Abdulmalik.

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