Enthusiastic to curtail the unlawful actions of a few drug sellers, the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria has sealed 581 pharmacies in 8 native executive farmlands of Adamawa Order.
The native governments are Yola-north, Yola-south, Mubi-north, Mubi-south, Girei, Numan, Michika, and Demsa.
Future addressing newshounds on Friday, the Director of Enforcement, PCN Pharmacy Stephen Esumobi, disclosed that the affected pharmacies had been running underneath the stipulated requirements of the council.
“A total 581 premises were sealed. The promises sealed include 35 pharmacies, 325 patent medicine shops, and 221 illegal medicine shops,” he stated.
Esumobi, who directed the Adamawa Order place of job of the PCN to proceed tracking the pharmaceutical retailers within the order, identified that the motion is to safeguard that every one the ones running out of doors the tips are delivered to conserve.
He famous that regardless of a number of conferences with the operators within the order, lots of them nonetheless refused to conform to the PCN directives since later the future 2022, sealing in their premises.
He added, “a lot of illegal medicine dealers were still found to be engaged in the sale of substances of abuse to members of the public thus aggravating the social and security challenges emanating from the illicit use of these medicines”
He warned that any pharmacy with out superintendent pharmacists to oversee the dishing out of moral medications will face the entire wrath of the regulation.
Esumobi additional disclosed that many premises had been running in places that weren’t appropriate for pharmaceutical industry, at the same time as he iñsisted that such operators must relocate or face sanctions.