Amaechi vows to sanitise pharmaceutical practice

June 20, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Leave a Comment

RIVERS State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has expressed his administration’s readiness to sanitise pharmaceutical practice in the state.

Amaechi expressed concern over the indiscriminate and unauthorised practices by local drug dealers in the state and added that government was determined to put an end to any unwholesome practice by local drug dealers.

The governor spoke on Tuesday when members of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt.

He promised to empower the task force established to sanitise pharmaceutical practice in the state to carry out its job without any hitch.

Amaechi said he would ensure that a law that would regulate the establishment of pharmaceutical shops was put in place.

“The state government will deal with the issue of local drug marketing. I think the proper thing to do is to ensure that there is a law that regulates the establishment of pharmaceutical shops.

“The law will ensure that only qualified pharmacists can establish or if you are not a pharmacist, you should at least have a qualified pharmacist working in the shop,” he added.

Earlier, the National Chairman of the association, Mrs. Ejiro Foyibo, said they were in Rivers State for a national conference of Pharmacists in the country tagged ‘Garden City 2012’.

She appealed to the governor to strengthen the state’s taskforce to deal with issues of unqualified business practice by unqualified drug marketers in the state.