Pharmaceutical producers and importers have been ordered to cease supplying medical merchandise to patent drugs merchants in Niger Road and Sabon Gari Market, Kano State.
This follows the judgment of the Federal Excessive Court docket on Friday, which ordered the drug sellers to right away vacate the Sabon Gari market and relocate to the Coordinated Wholesale Middle in Dangwauro, Kano State.
Members of the Nigerian Affiliation of Patent Proprietary Drugs Sellers had approached the court docket looking for a keep on their pressured relocation from their registered enterprise premises in Sabon Gari to the brand new location in opposition to their needs.
Nevertheless, Choose Simon Amobeda dominated within the case that the case lacked advantage and that the plaintiffs haven’t any locus standi to problem the relocation order issued by the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria, a physique empowered to control their actions.
In a joint assertion by the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management and PCN, the rationale behind the directive was to forestall the distribution of substandard and adulterated medicines within the state.
“NAFDAC and PCN warn producers, importers, medical representatives and all distributors to from this second stop supplying pharmaceutical merchandise, medical units and different regulated pharmaceutical merchandise to amenities, companies in Niger Road, Sabon Gari Market or elsewhere exterior the coordinated wholesale. Middle in Dangwauro, Kano,” the assertion learn partly.
Nevertheless, they warned that the errant firm dangers shedding its web site license and product license.
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