The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has refuted reports that 70 per cent of medicines in Nigeria are fake. In a press statement released today Friday April 26th, the Director General of the Agency, Professor Moji Adeyeye, said that the false report was published by Vanguard Newspaper.
Adeyeye described the report as “categorically untrue and grossly inaccurate,’’, stressing that a study jointly carried out by NAFDAC, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Department for International Development (DFID) in 2005 revealed that fake medicines in Nigeria stood at 16 per cent.
She further claimed that a survey conducted by NAFDAC in 2017 and 2018 on some widely used drugs showed that Nigerian medicines were 98 per cent wholesome.
Below is a full statement signed by the NAFDAC Director-General.
“The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) wish to inform the members of the public, especially health care…
