Following the ban that Indian government placed on exportation of drugs and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients to Nigeria and other countries last Tuesday, pharmacists have said the problem was due to
the lack of ‘affirmative action’ on the part of the Federal Government, even as the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has not directly addressed India’s action.
The BBC reports that India gets almost 70 per cent of its active pharmaceutical ingredients from China — a process that has been affected since China experienced the on-going coronavirus disease that has assumed global pandemic. The foreign companies were mostly into importation and distribution of their products rather than local manufacturing, it was gathered.
Only five indigenous companies manufacture pharmaceutical products locally, our correspondent gathered. The recent export ban by India, therefore, has caused concerns in Nigeria’s pharmaceutical sector.
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