Gombe Gov Charges Pharmaceutical Council On Drug production
From Abubakar Rabilu Gombe
Gombe state governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya has charged pharmaceutical societies Council of Nigeria not relent on imported drugs and Medicine but to start producing medicine from the available local plants.
Governor Inuwa stated this in Gombe during the 106 Committee Meetings of the Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors of Federal Tertiary hospitals in Nigeria, saying” We should not depend on expensive drugs and medicine that are imported from outside the country.
Represented by the deputy Governor Manasseh Daniel Jatau, said some time back the council of the pharmaceutical society had visited Gombe for their meeting where he charged them on the same issue.
“I see no reason that we depend on imported medicine or drugs while we have our local herbs that can produce from it.
“No matter how expensive the drug is, it can be produced by local herbs”he explained.
He appealed to the Doctors to lease with the pharmaceutical council and other partners to see the possibility of producing drugs to relieve Nigerians from buying hard and expensive drugs.
He also said many Nigerians are dying because of not afford expensive medicine.
He said drugs that were sold seven thousand few months back, now the amount had increased to twenty thousand, stressing the need to stop patronising imported drugs.
In his remark the Chief Medical Director Federal Teaching hospital Gombe Dr. Yusuf Muhammad Abdullahi, appreciates governor Muhammad Inuwa for considering federal teaching hospital in all his activities related to health care.
Dr Yusuf, said the essence of this committee meeting is to share experience and and cross fertiliser ideas as professionals.
He further said, the federal teaching hospital Gombe has establishes five schools one of it is the first of its kind in the north-eastern region which is school of dispersion Optician, and school of basis and post basic nursing school of post basic critical care and school of health information Management.
He thanked Governor Inuwa Yahaya for supporting them to establish the institutions and married primary and secondary health care together.
The committee meeting is for all Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors across Nigeria.
