The Chairman Governing Council of Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), Prof Ahmed Tijani Mora has called for collaboration with Nigerian Customs Service
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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.”
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), yesterday announced that it has sealed a total of 424 medicine shops in Abuja. This followed tour of some parts of the Federal Capital Territory by the Pharmaceutical Inspection Committees (PICs). The committee alongside that of Patent and Propriety Medicines Vendors Licence (PPMVL) were set up by PCN to […]
Views: Visits 5 The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), yesterday announced that it has sealed a total of 424 medicine shops in Abuja. This followed tour of some parts of the Federal Capital Territory by the Pharmaceutical Inspection Committees (PICs). The committee alongside that of Patent and Propriety Medicines Vendors Licence (PPMVL) were set up by PCN to monitor the activities of medicine shops with the aim of ensuring that they operate within the law. At the end of one-week enforcement exercise in Abuja, it stated that a total of 644 premises comprising 216 pharmacies and 428 patent medicine shops were visited out of which 424 premises comprising 99 pharmacies and 325 patent medicine shops were sealed for various offences.