To ensure product quality and consumer safety in Nigeria, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has procured 43 TruScan hand-held analysers worth $2,451,000 to check the quality and quantity of drugs produced locally and those imported into the country.
The director-general of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, who disclosed this yesterday in Abuja, said the equipment will help in the fight against fake and substandard drugs in the country.
She said of the 43 equipment, NAFDAC procured 40 and got three through the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (AIDS).
Professor Moji however, lamented that the agency has a manpower challenge, stating that part of what she is praying to achieve is to increase the staff capacity by 100 percent by the end of 2025, for effective surveillance.
She said “We are about 2,000 now, I am hoping that by the end of 2025 we will have reached 4,000. because that is part of our post marketing surveillance, whether it is legitimate or illegitimate, we need to do post marketing surveillance, we are going to improve on that even with the little numbers we have, we are praying that the government will hear us to provide more funding for staff,”
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