Registrar, PCN, Dr Elijah Mohammed PHOTO: Twitter The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has alerted Nigerians to the rise in unregistered medicine shops nationwide. The Council, at a press briefing in Enugu, after a week-long massive regulatory campaign, warned that the unregistered premises posed a serious threat to public health, could become channels for distributing of medicines whose quality, safety and efficacy have been compromised due to poor storage facilities and handling. Registrar, PCN, Dr Elijah Mohammed, said the Council sealed 391 premises in Enugu made up of 90 pharmacies and 301 patent medicine shops for operating without registration with Council, failure to renew premises license, dispensing ethical products without the supervision of a pharmacist, poor storage and sanitary conditions among others.
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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.”