There have been initiatives in Nigeria to develop local technology. But in my experience these initiatives fail to get traction.
A group of researchers at the pharmaceutical chemistry department of the University of Ibadan has looked into this issue. We came up with aIt started with the realisation that most modern drugs are aromatic in their chemical structure. They are also capable of absorbing ultraviolet light.
The main drawback was that most drugs are colourless and are not directly measurable on digital colorimeters. These were much cheaper to maintain than Ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometers that are driven by monochromators. This was solved by chromophoric labelling – chemistry that imparts colour to a molecule.
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