The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed off 96 pharmacies and 481 patent medicine shops totalling 577 medicine premises in Anambra for various offences.
The PCN’s Director, Inspection and Monitoring, Mrs Anthonia Aruya, made this known in Awka on Friday while addressing newsmen on the council’s efforts at sanitising the sector in the state.
Aruya said that 779 medicine premises were visited after which they issued 19 of them compliance directives for various offences.
According to her, the offences range from poor handling of controlled substances, sale and dispensing of prescription drugs without the supervision of a pharmacist and for an unhygienic environment and poor documentation.
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She said “The enforcement was in fulfilment of its mandate as stated in PCN Act, Cap P17, LFN, 2004 and also in line with the National Drug Distribution Guide of the Federal Government.
“The activities are geared at streamlining the drug distribution value chain to promote safe, effective and quality medicine distribution along with registered and licensed premises.
“we cannot guarantee Pharmacies that opened at will without recourse to have standards that will maintain the integrity of the products within such facilities, ‘’ she said.
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Aruya said that the council and other regulatory agencies were working to move all open drug markets to coordinate wholesale centres for proper regulation.
The director advised the public to always seek registration status of facilities where they access medicines to safeguard themselves from patronising quacks.
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