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The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, PCN, on Thursday, announced that it has sealed a total of 391 pharmacies and patent medicine stores within the last one week in Enugu.
DAILY POST reports that this was disclosed by the Registrar of the Council, Pharm. Elijah Mohammed during a press briefing in Enugu, addressed on his behalf by the Council’s Director of Enforcement, Pharm. Stephen Esumobi.
He told journalists that the exercise was carried out by the Pharmaceutical Inspection Committees, PICs, which has been in Enugu State since the beginning of the week.
He lamented that “the motive behind the operations of most of these illegal medicine shops is profit. This has created room unhealthy acts such as the sale of substances of abuse to criminal elements in the society who carry out their nefarious activities under the influence of drugs.”
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The Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed nothing less than 299 shops for different offences out of a total number of 536 shops visited by the team.
The affected shops which according to a press statement made available to newsmen in the state on Thursday by the registrar of the association, Pharmacist Elijah Mohammed, includes 37 Pharmacies and 262 Patent Medicine Shops.
According to the press statement which was signed by the registrar and addressed by the Director Enforcement Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, Stephen Esumobi, their offences as operating without registration with the association.
The offence includes failure to renew premises license, dispensing ethical products without the supervision of a pharmacist, poor storage and sanitary conditions among others.