Nigeria: Fake Drugs More Vicious Than HIV/Aids – Task Force
In its determination to eradicate the sale of fake drugs in the country, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Taskforce on Counterfeit and Fake Drugs (TFC&FD) has called on the public to desist from buying drugs from unregistered pharmacists stressing that "fake drugs are more vicious than the scourge of malaria and HIV/AIDS."
Making the call at a one-day public enlightenment campaign on the dangers of selling and buying fake drugs held at Utako motor park Abuja, the secretary TFC&FC, Hajiya Hauwa Kulu Ibrahim, stated that fake Paracetamol syrup, killed about 109 children a day in 1991.
23 February 2008