Lagos pharmacists raise concern over drug regulation gaps, seek PCN Council

Lagos State subdivision of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has raised concerns implicit gaps successful pharmaceutical regularisation successful the state, informing that inadequate staffing of cardinal regulatory offices and the prolonged lack of a afloat constituted Governing Council for the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, PCN, could undermine medicine information and nonrecreational standards.

The nine called connected the Federal Government to urgently inaugurate the PCN Governing Council, arguing that the regulatory hold had affected captious responsibilities, including accreditation, nonrecreational subject and oversight of pharmacy practice.

Chairman of the PSN successful Lagos, Pharm Olaitan Ogunlade made the telephone portion speaking astatine the opening of the 2026 Pharmacy Week successful Lagos.

Ogunlade said the shortage of pharmacists wrong the Directorate of Pharmaceutical Services, DPS, of the Lagos State Ministry of Health was limiting the agency’s quality to efficaciously transportation retired cause inspections, prime power activities, enforcement against counterfeit medicines and different regulatory duties.

He urged the Lagos State Government to code the manpower shortage by recruiting much pharmacists and ensuring that qualified professionals inhabit cardinal regulatory positions.

The PSN president besides stressed the request for the Federal Government to represent the PCN Governing Council successful accordance with the Pharmacy Council of Ni...