The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control in Nigeria, NAFDAC, says it will intensify it’s enforcement drive nationwide through the serialization of all drugs in the supply chain The Director General of the Agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja ahead of the second African Global Standard one Healthcare Conference in Lagos.
The Conference which is to have over three hundred participants from forty four countries as well as over one hundred representatives from healthcare regulators is to be co-hosted by NAFDAC and GS one next week.
According to Prof. Adeyeye, NAFDAC is co-hosting the conference as a continuum in fulfilling the Agency’s mandate with the aim of eliminating substandard and falsified medicines in the supply chain.
The Director General, opined that the Lagos Conference, will provide a unique opportunity for healthcare stakeholders to discuss how to work together across Africa to achieve better traceability of pharmaceuticals and to improve patient safety.
She stated that the World Health Organization, WHO, will be on hand to educate participants on its efforts to prevent substandard and falsified medical products from entering the global market.
It will be recalled that WHO recently estimated that one in ten medical products circulating in low and middle income countries to be either substandard or falsified especially in Africa that accounts for forty two percent of the detected cases worldwide.
Responding, the GS one leader in-charge for African Region, resident in Nigeria Miss. Elisa Seaziz who spoke through Tunde Odunlami, said it is patnering with NAFDAC to revolutionized the supply chain in medicine and all related products.
She said the unique thing that GS one wants to embrace is the ability to connect the supply chain through the consumer.
According to her, GS one developed several standards across the globe and one of the standards they focus on is standard for patients safety and design to guarantee patients safety while the unique point is collaboration.
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