See What Nigerian Pharmacists Are Saying About The Ban Of Codeine

The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), has said the restriction on importation of codeine as dynamic pharmaceutical element for hack arrangements was not a through and through answer for tackling the issue of medication manhandle in the nation. 

Dr. Albert Kelong Alkali, National Chairman of the ACPN, who required an all encompassing methodology in handling issue of medication mishandle, declared that embracing a multisectorial approach including the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and other medication control controllers would guarantee tranquilize following from the producers to the end clients.

He told newsmen on Thursday that: "We ought to have the capacity to represent every one of the medications that are produced and imported into this nation.

"On the off chance that we have such a following framework set up, at that point the issue of medication mishandle will be decreased to the barest least.

"In this way, the medication dispersion framework channel must be organized and the new National Drug Distribution Guideline (NDDG) ought to be executed.

"We are as yet perplexed that the due date for the usage of the new NDDG, January 2019 won't not be met.

"They ought to have the capacity to realize that there is a medication that is being mishandled, explore to discover where the manhandle is originating from," including that with the present advancement, each significant partner would sit up."