The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said that there are no €˜killer anti-malaria drugs in Nigeria.


The Acting Director-General, NAFDAC, Dr. Yetunde Oni, who stated this yesterday at a news conference in Lagos, said the reports in the social media on the ‘kidney-killer’ malaria drugs were false as there are no such drugs in the country.



Against the backdrop of the dangers posed by the drugs, the Senate had flayed the NAFDAC and Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) for not adequately waging the war against the influx of fake and sub-standard items into the country.



The NAFDAC boss said the allegedly banned drugs are oral monotherapies containing single Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) such as Artesunate as contained in Arinate tablet, Amodiaquine contained in Comoquine, Dihydroartemisinin contained in Alaxin tablets and Pyrimethamine contained in Daraprim tablets which are not recommended for the treatment of malaria in Nigeria.



She said the agency is committed to the well-being of Nigerians and so wishes to douse the tension and correct the misinformation on the social media and mainstream media about the banned drugs.



Oni said: “We want to douse the tension and correct the misinformation on the social and mainstream media about the 42 anti-malaria medicines purportedly banned by the European Union (EU) but allegedly circulating in the country.



The Acting DG, therefore, urged Nigerians to use the recommended anti-malarial medicine Artemisin Combination Therapies (ACTs) for the treatment of malaria, which is in line with the guidelines according to the WHO and the Nigeria National Anti-malarial Treatment Policy.



She, however, noted that with the progress made in the anti-counterfeiting technology device (Scratch and Text) put in place by the agency to monitor fake drugs, the agency would in some weeks deploy software on phones to checkmate the status of any NAFDAC regulated products.



Responding on the use of chloroquine as an anti-malarial drug, Director, Registration and Regulation Affairs, NAFDAC, Mrs. Titi Owolabi, said though the drug is in the market, it does not serve as anti-malaria as it has its own functions.



She urged Nigerians to stop using the drug in the treatment of malaria as it serves another purpose.
Source NAN


http://www.eyereport.com.ng/there-are-no-killer-malaria-drug-nafdac/

Dora Akunyili is gone.
No drug in the Nigerian market can be trusted anymore.



Yetunde Oni and Paul Orhii have taken us back to the ages of fake killer drugs.

Then why the sudden rise in malaria deaths?

ok

If Dora akinluyi of blessed memory were alive today and saying this ,I would have believed.but this is coming from a political infested agency.

Naija yes we can

Who do we believe?

I hope so too, kos mosquitoes full everywhere now, and pple dey sik

Chai Nigeria here we come. 20th Century we dont have malaria drugs

APC's CHANGE is a drug that kills faster than malaria

The Acting Director-General, NAFDAC, Dr. Yetunde Oni, who stated this yesterday at a news conference in Lagos, said the reports in the social media on the ‘kidney-killer’ malaria drugs were false as there are no such drugs in the country.


Blame the Senators who are crying babies crying wolves where there is none.

The Same NAFDAC that was charged by the courts after for FANTA saga.

The illiterate senators were swindled by fake news.

Ihe na ata ańara dị na ime ańara.The pest that consumes the garden egg is within.
As for late Dora...Atufuo nkirinka nkata, ụbọchi ájá achọba ya. If one gets rid of an old basket, on the day of sacrificing to the gods it will be remembered.

How can NAFDAC make such a careless statement

These days you buy drugs and they don't work

Who is regulating Who?

How pathetic..

The drugs won't kill you, they just won't cure the malaria.. and then the malaria will kill you..

The useless senate should have moved to ban buying prescription medicines over the counter without doctors prescription.

The so called combination therapies don't work effectively anymore

Wiseandtrue:
How can NAFDAC make such a careless statement

These days you buy drugs and they don't work

Who is regulating Who?

I gbadun ur comments

Use LONART DS for ur malaria cure...tested and trusted.

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Believe NAFDAC at your own peril!

I don't understand.
who should we trust. Media or Nafdac?

None

And what of this that nearly killed me

Godson222:
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said that there are no €˜killer anti-malaria drugs in Nigeria.


The Acting Director-General, NAFDAC, Dr. Yetunde Oni, who stated this yesterday at a news conference in Lagos, said the reports in the social media on the ‘kidney-killer’ malaria drugs were false as there are no such drugs in the country.



Against the backdrop of the dangers posed by the drugs, the Senate had flayed the NAFDAC and Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) for not adequately waging the war against the influx of fake and sub-standard items into the country.



The NAFDAC boss said the allegedly banned drugs are oral monotherapies containing single Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) such as Artesunate as contained in Arinate tablet, Amodiaquine contained in Comoquine, Dihydroartemisinin contained in Alaxin tablets and Pyrimethamine contained in Daraprim tablets which are not recommended for the treatment of malaria in Nigeria.



She said the agency is committed to the well-being of Nigerians and so wishes to douse the tension and correct the misinformation on the social media and mainstream media about the banned drugs.



Oni said: “We want to douse the tension and correct the misinformation on the social and mainstream media about the 42 anti-malaria medicines purportedly banned by the European Union (EU) but allegedly circulating in the country.



The Acting DG, therefore, urged Nigerians to use the recommended anti-malarial medicine Artemisin Combination Therapies (ACTs) for the treatment of malaria, which is in line with the guidelines according to the WHO and the Nigeria National Anti-malarial Treatment Policy.



She, however, noted that with the progress made in the anti-counterfeiting technology device (Scratch and Text) put in place by the agency to monitor fake drugs, the agency would in some weeks deploy software on phones to checkmate the status of any NAFDAC regulated products.



Responding on the use of chloroquine as an anti-malarial drug, Director, Registration and Regulation Affairs, NAFDAC, Mrs. Titi Owolabi, said though the drug is in the market, it does not serve as anti-malaria as it has its own functions.



She urged Nigerians to stop using the drug in the treatment of malaria as it serves another purpose.
Source NAN


http://www.eyereport.com.ng/there-are-no-killer-malaria-drug-nafdac/

Hmmm

NAFDAC Cannot be trusted. That's how Fanta and Sprite were discovered to be 'vitamin C tablet' away from being poison. Yet NAFDAC has not revoked their license. Until people start dying from drinking fanta and sprite abi