In Ogun, PCN seals 342 pharmacies and arrests one person for violating protocol.

In Ogun, PCN seals 342 pharmacies and arrests one person for violating protocol. - Feed9ja

In Ogun State over the past week, the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN) has closed no less than 342 pharmacies and Patient Medicine Shops (PMS) for failing to adhere to the country's established storage and safety standards.

The PCN also detained a person who is accused of specializing in obtaining funds intended for premises registration and renewal from unwitting participants in the state's drug distribution chain and issuing them with phony remittal receipts.

The affected pharmacies and PMS centers violated the 19 compliance directives set forth by the council, which are the minimum requirements for medicine storage in the nation, according to Pharm. Stephen Esumobi, Head of the PCN Enforcement Department, who made this information public to reporters in Abeokuta, the state capital.

Esumobi listed the following violations as the offenses: operating without registration or renewing a premises certificate; unauthorized sales of substances of abuse; poor sanitary conditions; poor storage; and operating without a certified superintendent pharmacist, among other requirements for entering the drug distribution industry.

He revealed that the enforcement operation, which started on Monday, September 19, 2022, lasted for four days, and that its taskforce concurrently carried it out across the state's three senatorial districts.

Esumobi emphasized that the impacted pharmacies and PMS centers would have a window of 30 days in which to regularize their status for continuing in the business of distributing drugs, while his Council will provide the necessary assistance for those impacted centers to enable them to evacuate drugs with low safety margins.

Esumobi stated that PCN would not hesitate to use the full force of the law against any vendor who refused to comply, even though he reiterated that PCN was not interested in driving any vendor or dealer out of business but rather in encouraging them to always engage in the best standard practice.

He claims that PCN has two standing committees in the state that are in charge of conducting follow-up inspections and ongoing supervision of such pharmacies and drug stores.

Esumobi predicted that the culprit would soon face charges in court.

source: vanguardngr

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