The Federal Government has pledged to bring down the soaring cost of medications to make it affordable to Nigerians. The Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojidola Adeyeye, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
According to the statement, Adeyeye gave the assurance at a webinar lecture organised by The Cable Newspaper, to celebrate its 10th anniversary with the theme: “Addressing Costs of Medicines’’. She said the current high cost of medicines in the country will become a thing of the past as the Agency is working in partnership with pharmaceutical industries to bring down the cost of drugs.
According to her, the devaluation of the Naira accounted largely for the high cost of production locally as the high exchange rate made procurement of raw materials and equipment imported for production extremely high. She said that due to difficulty associated with procurement of dollar, the cost of imported drugs has hit the roof, adding that the two multinational industries that left the country also accounted for the high cost of some medicals.
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