The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has described Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State as one of the areas vulnerable to fake drugs in the country.
The Agency stated this in Aba, during the inauguration of NAFDAC/NYSC Community Development Service, CDS, group.
The representative of NAFDAC in the event, Pharmacist Prince Onwuasoanya said the occasion was part of the Agency’s effort to take sensitization to the grassroots and to enforce its regulations.
Onwuasoanya described Aba as a place where people believe in cheap things, stressing that it made the city very vulnerable to fake and counterfeit drugs.
He explained that the job of the CDS group was to explain and educate people on the use of certain drugs.
“They are also to notify the office of any fake products and to alert the office on any violation of the agency’s rules”, he added.
According to him, making the corps members ambassadors of NFDAC means they would be equipped to do the job. He called on the NYSC as a body to join hands with the agency in the fight against fake products.
He said: “We want to make you partners and we also trust in your intelligence and the will. We want you to help us continue to achieve our goals”.
In a remark, the NYSC, Aba North LGA Supervisor, Pastor Chinedu Ndulue reminded the corps members that their duties as NFDAC agents would be to touch lives, urging them to do what the next generation would remember them for.
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