NAFDAC To Improve Health Sector In Nigeria

The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii has reteirated his effort at improvin health sector in Nigeria.
Mr. Paul made this known by  calling for improved partnership with Nigerian Medical association (NMA) in order to combat drug counterfeiting as well as promote medical education.
Orhii, made the call when he received the NMA Chairman, Abuja, and his team who were on a courtesy call at the NAFDAC head office on Tuesday.

He assured the NMA officials of support from the agency in the area of continuous medical education and called on the hospitals to join resources to acquire Truscan machines to detect the authenticity of drugs dispensed to patients.

He stated that his agency was willing to improve its collaboration with NMA as it was difficult to rid the country of fake drugs without the contribution from doctors who give prescriptions.
Though he acknowledged that the incident of fake drugs had reduced from 44 per cent to 16 per cent, he argued that owing to relentless attitude of drug counterfeiters, NAFDAC would not stop until all incidents of sub-standard drugs become a thing of the past.
Earlier in his remarks, NMA Chairman, Dr. Nicholas Baamlong, Orhii that the purpose of the visit was to intimate the agency with their activities and seek collaboration on medical education.
Baamlong commended Orhii for sustaining the momentum in the battle against fake drugs, adding that the introduction and use of technology showed that the agency was ahead of criminals on importing sub-standard drugs into the country.
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Mixed Reactions As 20011 Election Proceeds In Nigeria

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate for Benue South Senatorial District, Lawrence Onoja, on Tuesday called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel last Saturday's National Assembly poll in the district that returned Senate President, David Mark, for a record fourth term.


He alleged that the poll was marred by what he termed as wide spread irregularities.

This was contained in the petition Onoja, one time military Administrator of Plateau State, submitted at the office of Chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega.

 

However, Onoja who spoke to journalists after submitting his petition, had a little brush with some policemen at the INEC headquarters who had approached him questioning why he was talking to the media.

But the policemen, led by Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of INEC Headquarters, Chuks Enwonwu, were rebuffed by Onoja who complained about the menacing approach of the security agents.
But just as Onoja was making his case at the INEC headquarters, Mark issued a statement describing his (Onoja's) allegation as "spurious".

"More disheartening is why Onoja will continue to chase shadows after the good people of Benue South had decided overwhelmingly through the ballot that he (Onoja) is incompetent and incapable of representing them at the National Assembly," Mark's Campaign Organisation replied.
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