Kwara Government, NAFDAC Collaborate to Combat Fake Drugs

The Kwara Government has charged the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to intensify efforts at addressing fake or substandard drugs and food in the state.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Amina El-Imam, stated this on Monday in Ilorin during a courtesy visit by the state Coordinator of the Agency, Mr. Nadabo Nathan.

She emphasised the need to enhance healthy living of Nigerians, and urged the agency to enforce compliance with quality standards.

According to her, producers of fake drugs must be checked as a matter of urgency, in order to ensure the safety of people’s health.

“The agency should beam it’s searchlight on quacks who mislead members of the public with the advertisement of their fake products.

“Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara is very much committed to the delivery of quality healthcare services to the state.

“The present administration is ready to collaborate with the agency, to enable it carryout its statutory duties as expected.

“We are ready to reactivate the state taskforce committee on drug, to checkmate the problem of fake and substandard drugs and food,” El-Imam said.

Earlier, the State Coordinator, NAFDAC, Mr Nadabo Nathan, said the visit was to familiarise and collaborate with the government in curbing the menace of quacks across the state.

The coordinator, therefore, appealed to the state government to reactivate the  taskforce committee on drugs so as to assist and ease the agency’s job.

He expressed gratitude to the government for the constant support and ensuring that the agency succeeded in its statutory duties. (NAN)