381 Akwa Ibom pharmacies, medicine shops shut 

The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, on Friday, stated that it's enforcement team locked off a total of 381 pharmacies and patent shops in Akwa Ibom for different offences.

The Director and Head of Enforcement Department, PCN, Stephen Esumobi, who publicized this while briefing journalists in Uyo, said most of the affected shops were sealed off for operating without registration or renewal of premises certificates, unauthorised sale of medicines of abuse, and poor access control to the poison cupboard.

Other offences, according to him, are poor storage facilities and temperature control, and stocking and sale of prescription and other ethical products by patent medicine vendors, among others.

He said the enforcement agencies, 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.

Esumobi stated, “The PCN 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.