The Acting Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mrs Yetunde Oni has expressed the Agency’s ability to compete favourably with international counterparts on food and drug administration and control activities through the International Standard Organisation (ISO) accreditation of 4 of its laboratories.”The first leg is what we are doing here today by way of engaging NAFDAC to test the quality of the drugs, the second leg will be achieved in no distance future and that is the availability of the drugs and what I mean here is that, locally manufactured products like ACTs and the rest, should be patronized by CRS instead of importing drugs.” ”CRS can buy those drugs from our local manufacturers and donate them to areas of need” Oni pointed out.
NAFDAC had earlier uploaded its activities and competencies on the Global Fund website and that explains why CRS reached out to us. ”Of the 7 laboratories covering the 6 geopolitical zones, 4 of them are ISO 17025 accredited, 3 out of the 4 analyze drugs while one is dedicated to food and allied products. The CRS Country Representative Rebecca Hallam expressed her pleasure to all the stakeholders for witnessing the signing.
”Routine monitoring of the quality of all FFPs is very critical to CRS and the country as well as the donor, Global Fund who made the key requirement of malaria grant implementation” ‘’CRS is to monitor drugs like ACTs, Sulfadoxine/Pyremethamine and artesunate injection in the supply pipeline’’
‘’The samples of these product will be collected and routinely and tested in the World Health Organisation Pre-qualified laboratories and the attainment of NAFDAC to the ISO 17025 accreditation status has necessitated its selection’’ Hallam noted. ‘’In the past all implementers used to send samples abroad for testing, we therefore congratulate NAFDAC for the hard work towards achieving this accreditation’’
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