The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has partnered with the Nigeria’s pharmaceutical industry to achieve the World Health Organization (WHO) Maturity Level 4 status and catapult Nigeria into the league of Vaccines and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) producers in the world.
The manufacturers led by Dr. Fidelis Ayebae, the chairman of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group- Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMG-MAN), expressed their gratitude to the agency for reaching WHO Maturity Level 3 and pledged to do everything in their power to assist NAFDAC’s to continue to excel in creating an enabling environment for the industry to thrive.
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Dr Ayebae who is also the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Fidson Healthcare Plc, vowed to galvanise other chief executive officers of pharmaceutical companies in the country to ensure that they have a collaborative relationship with the regulatory body to make its oversight responsibility over the industry most effective and help the industry to grow.
He added that his body would form a technical committee with NAFDAC that would work with the Agency to ensure that the industry attains greater heights.
Speaking, the Director General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed that the nation has to maintain the Maturity Level 3 attained last year by continuing to adhere strictly to the best global practices in regulatory responsibility.
“We are going to strengthen our operations and be more effective. We are going to get ML4. We are going to get marked for World Listed Authority apart from ML4,’’ she said.
Adeyeye, in a statement signed by the Resident Media Consultant of NAFDAC, Sayo Akintola, said that the Agency just met all the requirement of ML3, stressing that ‘’while doing that we got some requirements also satisfied under ML4, but not all. Which means our journey is not going to be as difficult as it was for the last four plus years’’.