Federal health institutions are owing pharmaceutical companies the sum of N30 billion this year, the president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN),
He made the disclosure at the 96th Annual National Conference of the PSN in Gombe, Gombe State, tagged: “Jewel City 2023”.
Describing the creation of the DRF as one of the salient fallouts of the old Essential Drug Decree 43 of 1989, now the Essential Drug Act Cap 252 LFN in 2004, Usifo said the scheme was designed to deal with the challenges of the perennial out of stock syndrome in public health institutions. Osifo also blamed the collapse of DRF scheme on misapplication of proceeds, insisting that the, “militating bane of collapse DRF schemes in the various FHIs at federal level, states and LGA levels remains the unfortunate reality that the DRF proceeds were diverted to other endeavours apart from drugs, contrary to the provisions in the DRF Manuals.”
He said the PSN called for a probe of the NOHI affair and clamoured for a special retreat to resuscitate DRF by bringing together the HoD, pharmacies and physicians/chief executive officers of all the FHIs. ‘’In the new order, the PSN demands with a huge sense of responsibility that the DRF retreats proposed in 2021 should still hold,’’ Usifo said.
He stated that because of the sensitivity of ‘Drug use matters’, its regulation and control is constitutionally under the control of the federal government as listed in item 21, Part 1 of 2nd Schedule in the 1999 constitution.
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