No fewer than 572 pharmacies, patent medicine stores and illegal medicine outlets have been sealed by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria across Plateau State.
The outlets were shut for various violations of pharmaceutical regulations, including cooking inside drug outlets, illegal clinical practice and unauthorised access to controlled medicines.
The PCN’s Head of Department, Enforcement, Dr Suleiman Chiroma, disclosed this at a press conference in Jos on Friday at the end of a four-day enforcement exercise.
Chiroma, who spoke on behalf of the Registrar/CEO of the Council, Ibrahim Ahmed, said the operation was carried out in line with the Council’s mandate under the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (Establishment) Act No. 31 of 2022.
He explained that the exercise was part of efforts to enforce the National Drug Distribution Guidelines developed by the Federal Government to address Nigeria’s “chaotic drug distribution system.”
“The major goal of the NDDG is to ensure drug
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