The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control says mobile authentication of all drugs is not possible for now.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, said this in a statement on Friday.


The statement was in response to a call by the House of Representatives, that the Consumer Protection Council and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria should use the Mobile Authentication Scheme to detect counterfeit medicines.

Adeyeye noted that the scheme was first used by NAFDAC in 2010 as tool to curb the menace of substandard and falsified medical products.

She noted that the medicines identified for implementation and enforcement in the first stage of the MAS scheme were anti-malaria and anti-bacteria in nature.

The NAFDAC boss said these classes of medicines were selected as a result of the high incidence of counterfeiting and the impact on public health.

Adeyeye, however, said the scheme was not fully implemented by all relevant stakeholders despite several enforcement deadlines issued by NAFDAC for compliance.

She said, “The suggestion by the Speaker to use MAS for all drugs regulated by NAFDAC is noble, and in line with the agency’s ultimate agenda. However, a lot of staffing and funding will be needed for full implementation.

“The limited authentication that is being undertaken currently for the two classes of drugs by NAFDAC sometimes result in overwhelming calls to the drug information specialists at NAFDAC secretariat. Considering the fact that NAFDAC has over 11,000 registered drug products, the manpower that will be needed to authenticate all drugs will be enormous.”

http://www.akelicious.net/2018/07/mobile-verification-for-all-drugs-not.html

Adeyeye, however, said the scheme was not fully implemented by all relevant stakeholders despite several enforcement deadlines issued by NAFDAC for compliance.


This is where the government should step in quick.
Where is the Minister of health?

Very interesting. Till when then?

Okay oooo.

Nigeria my country

Lol..

stay woke

Too early to say something....

I dreamt a very bad dream,i woke up it was 4.32am,in my dream the hausa are planning war on xtians,it wil start frm d main north,i saw them chasin anything christian with cutlass.lets pray 4 nigeria

True!

Moyinoluwa35:
I dreamt a very bad dream,i woke up it was 4.32am,in my dream the hausa are planning war on xtians,it wil start frm d main north,i saw them chasin anything christian with cutlass.lets pray 4 nigeria

You should go back to your dream, we've had enough in Nigeria biko

What manpower are you talking about. Do the needful Prof.

Sir am serious abt it,i cant sleep,d dream was lyk a revelation

simeonkoolluck:


You should go back to your dream, we've had enough in Nigeria biko

See them... Una no dey sleep at all?

I believe there's a way to work it out with tech.

NAFDAC should make it easy for stakeholders to implement, trust me, they will abide by the rules.

with simple and cheap technology there would be no need for massive manpower. The DG of NAFDAC is obviously a geriatric living in an analog era

The system needs to be automated. You do not need more than a few personnel to handle the authentication process biko! Once barcoded, computer authentication can handle call responses.
Just go to airports around the world, once you scan your boarding pass, access is granted. System reads the barcodes and grant access. It is only here you meet people at the counter who specialise in ragging.

IT gurus job done come ooo!

which zobo get NAFDAC number.

It's better to implement on all drugs and curb the menace of fake drugs thereby saving lives. No matter how expensive it is to implement, since the issue of health is concerned, I feel it should still be implemented. Any drug manufacturing company that cannot meet up with this requirement, certainly doesn't need to function. This policy should be made mandatory for all classes of drugs.

I wonder why they needs lots of man power when technology can easily takes care of it.
All NAFDAC needs to do is to certify specific batch of drug, issue it a generic code, enters the code into data base and let me verify through SMS if they are certified by NAFDC through the generic code. Simple as ABC but all this useless civil servant will find away to defend their incompetence.

Moyinoluwa35:
I dreamt a very bad dream,i woke up it was 4.32am,in my dream the hausa are planning war on xtians,it wil start frm d main north,i saw them chasin anything christian with cutlass.lets pray 4 nigeria

So in that your useless dream, were the Hausas also killing Hausa Christians, or in your bigoted mind, Hausa is now a religion.

M

djeezy:
It's better to implement on all drugs and curb the menace of fake drugs thereby saving lives. No matter how expensive it is to implement, since the issue of health is concerned, I feel it should still be implemented. Any drug manufacturing company that cannot meet up with this requirement, certainly doesn't need to function. This policy should be made mandatory for all classes of drugs.

Maybe you can supply NAFDAC ,the funding and manpower.

Moyinoluwa35:
I dreamt a very bad dream,i woke up it was 4.32am,in my dream the hausa are planning war on xtians,it wil start frm d main north,i saw them chasin anything christian with cutlass.lets pray 4 nigeria

Joseph the dreamer ..... Abeg, its too early for this nonsense. Why not dream of a peaceful Nigeria ?

So, na only malaria and antibiotics own dey ?

Moyinoluwa35:
I dreamt a very bad dream,i woke up it was 4.32am,in my dream the hausa are planning war on xtians,it wil start frm d main north,i saw them chasin anything christian with cutlass.lets pray 4 nigeria

Na una type dey cause wahala 4 their self.useless geh abi na woman.

why

Well, it's okay. It never worked before.

Moyinoluwa35:
I dreamt a very bad dream,i woke up it was 4.32am,in my dream the hausa are planning war on xtians,it wil start frm d main north,i saw them chasin anything christian with cutlass.lets pray 4 nigeria

So the Christians doesn't know how to carry knife? Abi the Muslim get 4hands? Let the Muslim bring the war to Calabar... We'll use all of them as suya here.
And believe me, we'll eat them after roasting.

stevenosa:
Very interesting. Till when then?

Till we bundle buhari out of Aso Rock

We missed Dora,the iron lady.