{"id":126915,"date":"2021-12-29T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=126915"},"modified":"2021-12-29T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:20:07","slug":"nafdac-to-reduce-drugs-importation-to-30-percent-by-2025-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/29\/nafdac-to-reduce-drugs-importation-to-30-percent-by-2025-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFDAC to reduce drugs importation to 30 percent by 2025 \u2013 DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is working on reducing importation of drugs from its present 70 per cent to 30 per cent by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos that this could be achieved through increased local manufacturing of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyeye said that increasing local drug manufacturing would help curb prevalence of substandard drugs and ensure drug security in the country.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWe are using multifaceted approaches to curb substandard and falsified medicine in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a country is over-dependent on importation of medicine, such country will get substandard drugs and if not for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/29\/arteta-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>, we wouldn\u2019t have woken up from our slumber as a country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started my tenure, local manufacturing of medicine became my focus because when you increase local manufacturing you are not just giving more jobs or increasing the GDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost, importantly, you are safeguarding the health of the nation because if somebody is falsifying something on Ota, for example, we can get there within one hour and something like that had happened before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we want to change the 70 per cent importation of drugs into the country to 30 per cent by 2025, so that as a nation we can say we have drug security because we don\u2019t have that now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA country that is not drug secure is not secured in other facets\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it is working on reducing importation of drugs from its present 70 per cent to 30 per cent by 2025. 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