Pharm. Elijah Mohammed, Registrar Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), has restated the Federal Government’s commitment to ending open drug hawking by Aug. 1, 2017.
Mohammed gave the assurance on Monday in Abuja described this as part of efforts to regulate drug distribution system in the country.
He said the move would assist in curtailing the menace of open drug sale.
Mohammed attributed major challenges in the health system to open drug hawking.
He added that a lot of the hawkers sold fake and adulterated drugs.
The registrar stated that coordinated wholesale centres are currently being built in four states of the federation where open sale of drugs is predominant.
H said that the drug dealers would be relocated to the centres to enable them to carry out their activities in a coordinated manner.
According to him, the…
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