PCN seals 381 medicine shops in A’Ibom

The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria has on Friday sealed 381 pharmacies and patent shops in Akwa Ibom for various offences

The Director and Head of Enforcement Department, Stephen Esumobi, made this known while briefing newsmen in Uyo, the state capital.

He said most of affected shops were sealed for offences such as operating without registration or renewal of premises certificates, unauthorised sales of medicines, and poor access control to the poison cupboard.

Others offences included poor storage facilities and temperature control, stocking and sale of prescription, and other ethical products by the patent medicine vendors.

He said that the enforcement team, in continuation of the current drive by the council to streamline the drug distribution system, visited 727 premises comprising 559 patent medicine shops and 168 pharmacies.

The council’s director added that the enforcement team has been in Akwa Ibom State since the beginning of the week in continuation of the current drive by the council to streamline the drug distribution system in the country.