shortgun:
This drug Dexamethasone was prescribed by doctors in a Government hospital for my dad, getting to the pharmacy I was told that NAFDAC have stopped pharmacies from selling the drug and confiscated the ones in their warehouses.

I put a call across to the doctor to speak with the pharmacist about the development. After asking the pharmacist when the drug was withdrawn from circulation and other things the doctor insisted I get the drug in another pharmacy that have it in stock, this is after the pharmacist stood her ground that the drug is no longer safe as directed by NAFDAC.
I've gotten the drug but I am still not sure if I should let my dad take it cos of this confusion.
What do you guys think?

Kellie069:
Doctor said you should buy! Pharmacist said the drugs has been banned by govt !! Probably because the pharmacy didn’t had the drug for sale! If the doctor says it’s okay for consumption; then do it !!! The doctor knows what’s wrong with your relative and he knows what is required !! A banned drugs doesn’t mean it will kill anyone who takes it ! Just that sometimes , the compositions of a drug may not be in-line with government standard and that yet again in some cases doesn’t make the drug harmful to consume!

LaIabobo:
NAFDAC released an advisory that there are some substandard brands of this drug in circulation.

That doesn't mean all Dexamethasone are fake.

However, this particular brand was part of the substandard ones listed by NAFDAC last year.

Check number 18 on the list below...

https://www.nafdac.gov.ng/public-alert-no-040-2022-alert-on-detection-of-substandard-dexamethasone-products-in-nigeria/

Waakanda:
I used to work in a pharmacy years back. The drug is used for allergic reactions. People buy it a lot for the said purpose. Now, after many years of allowing it to be on the shelf, they banned it. How come they didn't discover what was wrong with it for many years

thesicilian:

Seriously bro, I don't know what is wrong with some Nigerians. If your doctor says the drug is good for your father, why would you start doubting him because of what the pharmacy is telling you? The doctor has all the patient's medical records, the pharmacist doesn't. And besides government bans drugs all the time for the flimsiest of reasons. I remember the time they banned most cough syrups because boys were using it to get high.
My advise to this guy is to change the doctor if he doesn't trust his prescription, but I see nothing wrong with it

Kellie069:



Exactly , funny enough, assuming the pharmacy had that drug in stock , they would have sold it to him without mentioning about it being banned or something!

shortgun:
This drug Dexamethasone was prescribed by doctors in a Government hospital for my dad, getting to the pharmacy I was told that NAFDAC have stopped pharmacies from selling the drug and confiscated the ones in their warehouses.

I put a call across to the doctor to speak with the pharmacist about the development. After asking the pharmacist when the drug was withdrawn from circulation and other things the doctor insisted I get the drug in another pharmacy that have it in stock, this is after the pharmacist stood her ground that the drug is no longer safe as directed by NAFDAC.
I've gotten the drug but I am still not sure if I should let my dad take it cos of this confusion.
What do you guys think?

DearGorgeous:
Op listen to the Pharmacist. I've had similar personal experience in the past. The doctor recommended a drug for me to buy at the hospital's pharmacy (a Federal Government Hospital for that matter).

May God bless that pharmacist. She advised me not to buy the recommended drug. I asked why? She told me it causes kidney failure and liver problems. She said it'll surely cure what I was taking it for, but a bigger problem will arise later. She advised that I google the side effects of the drug when I get home. Seeing her deep care and sincerity, I opted for the alternative drug she introduced to me right at the counter. And I was perfectly ok after taking them.

And through to her words, the side effects were very scary. It's an antibiotic. You can't take it before or after a meal. You take it while eating. If you disobey, you face the repercussion immediately. I named it Satanic Drug!

DearGorgeous:
Op listen to the Pharmacist. I've had similar personal experience in the past. The doctor recommended a drug for me to buy at the hospital's pharmacy (a Federal Government Hospital for that matter).

May God bless that pharmacist. She advised me not to buy the recommended drug. I asked why? She told me it causes kidney failure and liver problems. She said it'll surely cure what I was taking it for, but a bigger problem will arise later. She advised that I google the side effects of the drug when I get home. Seeing her deep care and sincerity, I opted for the alternative drug she introduced to me right at the counter. And I was perfectly ok after taking them.

And through to her words, the side effects were very scary. It's an antibiotic. You can't take it before or after meal. You take it while eating. If you disobey, you face the repercussion immediately. I named it Satanic Drug!

shortgun:
This drug Dexamethasone was prescribed by doctors in a Government hospital for my dad, getting to the pharmacy I was told that NAFDAC have stopped pharmacies from selling the drug and confiscated the ones in their warehouses.

I put a call across to the doctor to speak with the pharmacist about the development. After asking the pharmacist when the drug was withdrawn from circulation and other things the doctor insisted I get the drug in another pharmacy that have it in stock, this is after the pharmacist stood her ground that the drug is no longer safe as directed by NAFDAC.
I've gotten the drug but I am still not sure if I should let my dad take it cos of this confusion.
What do you guys think?

UyaiIncomparabl:


What's the real name of the drug, please?

captainking:

almost all the drugs we take can cause liver or kidney failure

shortgun:
This drug Dexamethasone was prescribed by doctors in a Government hospital for my dad, getting to the pharmacy I was told that NAFDAC have stopped pharmacies from selling the drug and confiscated the ones in their warehouses.

I put a call across to the doctor to speak with the pharmacist about the development. After asking the pharmacist when the drug was withdrawn from circulation and other things the doctor insisted I get the drug in another pharmacy that have it in stock, this is after the pharmacist stood her ground that the drug is no longer safe as directed by NAFDAC.
I've gotten the drug but I am still not sure if I should let my dad take it cos of this confusion.
What do you guys think?

oka4ugoo:
Doctors from government hospital . Just visit that doctor's private clinic tomorrow and you will be surprised that he will recommend for ur daddy a better different drugs.

You better go back to that pharmacist and ask him or her to give you a better alternative drug because as far as am concern the one you bought na original fake drug.

Aside from surgical operations, I believe pharmacists more than I believe doctors when it comes to drugs that's why with just ur lab result you can visit professional pharmacists (not chemists oo) for drug

acewines:



I hate anything government hospital

I bought one drugs there according to the doctor's prescription and they covered the name with paper, after it got finished, I removed it only to see that it's tramadol...

My guy was stooling blood,na so general hospital for gbagada tell am to come back in 2 months time that that's when the specialist will be around.. now judge the matter

DearGorgeous:
Op listen to the Pharmacist. I've had similar personal experience in the past. The doctor recommended a drug for me to buy at the hospital's pharmacy (a Federal Government Hospital for that matter).

May God bless that pharmacist. She advised me not to buy the recommended drug. I asked why? She told me it causes kidney failure and liver problems. She said it'll surely cure what I was taking it for, but a bigger problem will arise later. She advised that I google the side effects of the drug when I get home. Seeing her deep care and sincerity, I opted for the alternative drug she introduced to me right at the counter. And I was perfectly ok after taking them.

And through to her words, the side effects were very scary. It's an antibiotic. You can't take it before or after meal. You take it while eating. If you disobey, you face the repercussion immediately. I named it Satanic Drug!

mignone:

Same way they discouraged us from using chloroquine for malaria, instead they introduced a athemeter nonsense so people will have to keep coming back to buy meds.

Kellie069:
Doctor said you should buy! Pharmacist said the drugs has been banned by govt !! Probably because the pharmacy didn’t had the drug for sale! If the doctor says it’s okay for consumption; then do it !!! The doctor knows what’s wrong with your relative and he knows what is required !! A banned drugs doesn’t mean it will kill anyone who takes it ! Just that sometimes , the compositions of a drug may not be in-line with government standard and that yet again in some cases doesn’t make the drug harmful to consume!

jaephoenix:

Lol. This is seriously funny. A pharmacist told you not to take a drug because it causes kidney failure, and you disobeyed your doctor? Please you should have asked that pharmacist which drugs doesn't have organ failure as a side effect?
The truth is all drugs are poison. And that includes the pills, herbs, agbo etc. Anything that alters the body physiology is a drug. The paracetamol y'all abuse causes liver failure. The ibuprofen/ibucap/diclofenac causes kidney failure. Does it mean if you take it according to doc prescription you'll have organ failure? No! First thing, the doc won't prescribe it if you already have an organ failure, and if he does, it is for short period and he has weighed the pros outweighs the cons.

jaephoenix:

Lol. This is seriously funny. A pharmacist told you not to take a drug because it causes kidney failure, and you disobeyed your doctor? Please you should have asked that pharmacist which drugs doesn't have organ failure as a side effect?
The truth is all drugs are poison. And that includes the pills, herbs, agbo etc. Anything that alters the body physiology is a drug. The paracetamol y'all abuse causes liver failure. The ibuprofen/ibucap/diclofenac causes kidney failure. Does it mean if you take it according to doc prescription you'll have organ failure? No! First thing, the doc won't prescribe it if you already have an organ failure, and if he does, it is for short period and he has weighed the pros outweighs the cons.

Kellie069:
Doctor said you should buy! Pharmacist said the drugs has been banned by govt !! Probably because the pharmacy didn’t had the drug for sale! If the doctor says it’s okay for consumption; then do it !!! The doctor knows what’s wrong with your relative and he knows what is required !! A banned drugs doesn’t mean it will kill anyone who takes it ! Just that sometimes , the compositions of a drug may not be in-line with government standard and that yet again in some cases doesn’t make the drug harmful to consume!

jaephoenix:

Hospitals cover drug names because Nigerians abuse drugs seriously, as in crazy abuse. So they are right, though patient has the right to know the name of the drug s/he is taking.
General and Teaching Hospitals are overbooked. If you have an urgent case, no need going there, just go to a private hospital. In this case your bro was stooling blood, he should have been admitted depending on the severity, but even at that, they are overcrowded. Even today, I sent an emergency case to GH Gbagada, and they bounced them. Same as LUTH and LASUTH. No space

LagBlogger:


It is not funny because some doctors are incompetent and yes pharmacists know drugs better than doctors.

All drugs have side effects but their side effects varies. Some are mild while others are strong.

Avoid drugs with strong side effects because the doctor will not be able to save you nor will he accept blame when the worst happens.

Don't give people medical advise you are not qualified to give because it is life we are talking about here not merely an ailment.

DearGorgeous:


Bros, I am happy I didn't take that antibiotic, abeg. And I'm grateful for the Pharmacist that advised me.

acewines:


This is not about overcrowding or something

Had an accident and I was bleeding from my right ear, I went to GH gbagada and I given a card with 2months appointment date, as it wasn't that serious like b4 I waited for the time to come, I went back there and I was given another 1month and I asked,she said the ENT isn't available for now, 1 month came, she gave the 3rd date,tho 2weeks. I left the 2 weeks came I went to the place I was asked to stay, some minutes later she came in and said they have reached the number of people (18) that the specialist could see for the day out of annoyance,I told her how I've been posted severally, she gave a nonchalant comment, I threw the card over the canter to where she sat and stormed out, I left the hospital,5mins later my phone rang and I answered, only for the person to tell me to come back that she has written my name there.. I didn't answer her but to apologize for my actions earlier and I haven't gone to any hospital to check on my ear.. still hearing a little bit of noise inside it

When I'm chanced will visit the military hospital for yaba

jaephoenix:

Its the same thing we're saying, overcrowding. If the capacities were enlarged and more doctors employed,do you think there would be crowds and postponements(like you had)? In advanced countries, you'll easily see doctors, but you pay through your nose.
I think why they called you back was that the ENT specialist heard about your postponements and decided to take your case out of pity. These specialists usually do rounds after the clinic, so they have to leave that clinic early

shortgun:
This drug Dexamethasone was prescribed by doctors in a Government hospital for my dad, getting to the pharmacy I was told that NAFDAC have stopped pharmacies from selling the drug and confiscated the ones in their warehouses.

I put a call across to the doctor to speak with the pharmacist about the development. After asking the pharmacist when the drug was withdrawn from circulation and other things the doctor insisted I get the drug in another pharmacy that have it in stock, this is after the pharmacist stood her ground that the drug is no longer safe as directed by NAFDAC.
I've gotten the drug but I am still not sure if I should let my dad take it cos of this confusion.
What do you guys think?