The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has uncovered a disturbing trend of free codeine syrups and HIV drugs being diverted from their intended recipients in a recent crackdown on the distribution of fake drugs.
This follows the agency’s sealing of over 3,000 Idumota shops over the circulation of fake drugs. In a release on Monday, it said two more massive warehouses full of fake and expired medicines were uncovered over the weekend in Aba, with truckloads in Idumota and Onitsha.
Items discovered were vaccines in dilapidated, unventilated rooms sealed with iron sheets in a filthy environment. Others were banned products like large consignment of Analgin injections, diverted free HIV and antiretroviral drugs, expired drugs kept for revalidation, and unregistered drugs among others.