Agency confiscates fake anti malaria drugs

February 9, 2010 01:12AM

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, in January, confiscated N10 million worth of Lonart, an anti-malaria drug, illegally imported into the country. The Director-General of the agency, Paul Orhii, said this on Monday in Yola when he paid a visit to the state governor, Murtala Nyako.

According to him, the agency had also in May 2009 confiscated 70,000 containers of fake anti-malaria drugs worth N32 million illegally imported into the country.

Mr. Orhii said the drugs were intercepted and confiscated by personnel of the agency on routine checks.

Responding, Mr. Nyako said Vision 2020 would only be realistic if Nigerians were provided with quality foods and drugs.

He attributed most of the ailments of Nigerians to the lack of quality foods, noting that “nowadays, most Nigerian children have stunted growth due to the lack of good foods.”

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Reader Comments (3)

Posted by Amina on Feb 09 2010

I admister the anti malarial drug lonart to my daughter exactly two days ago. ijust it has no side effect.

Posted by fenogie on Feb 09 2010

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control should pursue death penalty case against anyone found to be involved is in trafficking fake drugs. Such people are murderers.

Posted by Adeyemi O.C. (B.pharm) on Feb 09 2010

in our surveys in practice, failure rates of close to 46% or more are common with first line anti-malarials due primarily to substandard products. NGOs and private practices should begin organising collaborative efforts to source drugs from credible manufacturers directly, this has economic and professional benefits beyond our present status. unltd51@yahoo.com