The Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, PCN, has sealed 618 premises, including pharmacies and patent medicine shops, for various offences contravening the council’s regulations in Rivers and Bayelsa States.
The Head of Enforcement at the PCN, Suleiman Chiroma, said this to Newsmen in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on Thursday evening, following a week-long enforcement exercise across four local government areas in Rivers State and two LGAs in Bayelsa State.
Chiroma says the enforcement team arrested five persons for allegedly engaging in illicit activities and of the 618 premises sealed, 178 were pharmacies, 123 were patent medicine shops, and 317 were illegal shops, while nine premises were issued compliance directives.
Some of the offences included operating illegal shops, non-renewal of premises registration, carrying out clinical practices, and unauthorised access to controlled medicines, among others.