Self-Sufficiency In Drug Production Guarantees Health Security – PSN
Mr. Olumide Akintayo, immediate past president pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), (left); Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai,PSN President; Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, Governor Abia State, during a courtesy call to the Governor in Government House Umuahia for the 90th annual national conference of the society, ‘Abia 2017’ on Monday. By Chioma Umeha Pharmacists under the auspices of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have stressed the need for the country to achieve self-sufficiency in pharmaceutical production. They noted that this will remove Nigeria from the list of countries that have become dump sites for fake drugs. Speaking for pharmacists was Ahmed Yakasai, President of PSN who spoke at the society’s 90th annual week-long national conference in Umuahia, Abia state which started Monday. Yakasai said that PSN is at the vanguard of ensuring that the country emerge self-sufficiency in medicine production so as to contribute to the nation