The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN) has shutdown 581 pharmacy and patent medicine shops across Adamawa State following a recent inspection to the facilities.
The Director Enforcement of the Council, Pharmacist Stephen Esumobi made the disclosure during a Press briefing in Yola, the Adamawa state Capital said the action was inline with the mandate of the Council.
He said the council was empowered to regulate, controlling the education, training and practice of Pharmacy inline with Pharmacy Council of Nigeria Establishment Act 2022.
The Director added that numerous pharmacies lacked qualified superintendent pharmacists and that many shops were located in inappropriate areas.
“Many of the premises were not registered with the PCN, and several registered patent medicine vendors were operating well beyond the limits of their licenses.
“A total of 816 premises were visited making up of 98 Pharmacies,497 Patient Medicine shops and 221 illegal premises.
“During the exercise,a total of 581 premises were sealed including 35 pharmacies,325 patent Medicine shops and 221 illegal medicine shops.
“A lot of illegal medicine Dealers were found to be engaged in the sales of substances of abuse to members of the public thereby aggravating the social and security challenges emanating from the illicit use of these medicines,” Esumobi said.
To enforce the policy, the the pharmacy Council of Nigeria has directed the state officer in Adamawa to carry out continuous monitoring of pharmaceutical premises in the state to ensure that all those operating outside the guidelines are brought to book.
In 2022, the PCN embarked upon a similar exercise in the state and some medicine outlets were sealed for operating in breach of it’s laws and regulations.
The team also discovered that the storage conditions in many of the premises were inadequate thereby exposing medicines to harsh environmental factors like high temperature and humidity which degrades and make them unsuitable for human consumption.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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