•Says It’ll Help Nigeria To Achieve National
Security On Medicine
Chioma Umeha
Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai, President, Pharmaceutical
Society of Nigeria (PSN), has described Fidson Healthcare Plc, multi-billion
naira manufacturing plant at Ota, Ogun state as a state-of-the-art world-class
facility with all the ultra-modern high-tech machinery that will enable the
country to achieve national security through the supply of quality medicines at
affordable prices.
Yakasai who said this recently, when he led a
powerful team of his National Executive Council (NEC) members in a
familiarisation visit to the factory, noted that it is the biggest
pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in West Africa, and added that the company
deserves the support and patronage from government and other stakeholders.
The PSN boss, in a release, said that the team was
warmly received by Pharm. Biola Adebayo, the Executive Director, Operations.
He said that after going round the facility, “the
PSN team agreed that the factory is a world class facility with all the
ultra-modern high-tech machinery you can think of anywhere in the world.”
The PSN President said that the state-of -the-art
facility were producing tablets, capsules, dry powder, liquids, cream and
ointment and indeed large and massive lines of intravenous fluids.
“Honestly, we were highly impressed and
encouraged. This is a great achievement in our march towards achieving national
security through the supply of quality medicines at affordable prices.
“No doubt pharmaceutical sector can be a goldmine
if given the required attention by the government and by so doing maintaining
the medicines in the exclusive lists of the constitution not as suggested by
El-Rufai APC committee that Food and Medicines should be transferred to
concurrent lists,” Yakasai stated.
He added, “Fidson is no doubt a national pride.
This is the only way I can define the love and devotion to our country by the
founder of this company, Fidelis Ayebae. This is true patriotism in action and
he needs to be encouraged and supported by government – support in real terms
which is not only by way of intervention funds but also patronage with prompt
payment.”
