PCN seals 598 pharmacies, patent medicine shops in Kaduna over regulatory breaches

About 598 pharmacies and patent medicine shops successful Kaduna State person been sealed by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN) arsenic portion of efforts to curb amerciable cause organisation and safeguard nationalist health.

The National Head of Enforcement, Suleiman S. Chiroma, disclosed this astatine a property briefing connected Friday, explaining that the determination followed wide non-compliance with pharmaceutical regulations crossed the state.

According to him, “The four-day cognition covered 828 premises crossed cardinal section authorities areas, including Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Zaria, Sabon Gari, Giwa and Igabi.”

Of these, helium said 598 were sealed, comprising 68 registered pharmacies and 456 patent medicine stores, alongside 74 unlicensed outlets operating extracurricular the law.

Chiroma lamented that galore of the sealed facilities were recovered selling prescription-only medicines without authorisation, portion others were cited for mediocre retention conditions, deficiency of due licensing, and engaging successful objective practices beyond their approved scope.

Two individuals, according to him, were arrested by the enforcement squad for superior infractions, alongside the issuance of compliance directives to respective operators who failed to conscionable r...