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Health News of Thursday, 4 June 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

COVID-19: NAFDAC raises alarm over fake drugs, face masks, sanitizers

NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has raised alarm over the sale of fake COVID-19 drugs as well.

Recall that Nigerians were warned about substandard hand sanitizers the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, last month.

The agency, through its Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, on Wednesday, added that NAFDAC discovered fake face masks and hand sanitizers during post-marketing surveillance of COVID-19 medical products.

Adeyeye also noted that fake Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine are currently in circulation across the country, urging Nigerian to be wary of the products.

The NAFDAC boss said: “Post-marketing surveillance is part and parcel of NAFDAC. We stepped it up because we knew that companies were changing formula and formulations for us.

“We see falsified Chloroquine without any active ingredients in it. Of course, we also have had fake sanitizers and masks, which we have to deal with regulatory-wise.

“Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine are some of the therapeutics that Nigeria is using for clinical trial treatment only. We started with Chloroquine and then Hydroxychloroquine came in,” she revealed during