Tue Jun 01 2021
Some Nigerians, especially those who need to buy drugs for one health condition or the other, have said they are encountering hardship in procuring drugs from out-of-pocket expenses as their prices continue to increase.
The rising price of drugs in Nigeria has been linked to the non-production of pharmaceutical raw materials in drug-producing countries such as China and India. It was gathered that about 60 per cent of imported drug products being circulated in the country are from India.
With a total of over 27 million COVID-19 cases and 310,000 deaths in India as at May 25, 2021, the companies producing pharmaceutical raw materials have been temporarily shut.