Category: News
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Functional pharmaceutical supply chain will enhance consistent, affordable medicine says JNC International MD
Mrs Clare Omatseye, the Managing Director, JNC International, a pharmaceutical company, has called for a functional pharmaceutical supply chain to ensure consistent flow of affordable medicine in Nigeria. Omatseye made the call at the inauguration of the Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN), held at the Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja, Lagos. She spoke as a keynote speaker at the inauguration on:…
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Pharmacists launch PWDAN to checkmate chaotic drug distribution
A group of concerned pharmacists has floated a pharmaceutical distribution network to checkmate the perennial problem of counterfeiting and chaotic drug system. Tagged ‘Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN)’, the initiative is due for official commissioning on May 26 at the Sheraton Hotel in Lagos. Speaking with our correspondent, Dr. Ernest Okafor, PWDAN…
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Chaotic Drug Distribution Greatest Challenge Of Pharmacy Practice — PWDAN
Ahead of its official inauguration next week, the Pharmaceutical Wholesalers & Distributors Association of Nigeria, PWDAN, has identified the dislodgment of a systematic drug distribution since Nigeria’s independence as the greatest challenge in the practice of pharmacy in the country. PWDAN decried that over time the dislodgment has resulted in what it described as an…
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Chaotic drug distribution greatest challenge of pharmacy practice — PWDAN
Ahead of its official inauguration next week, the Pharmaceutical Wholesalers & Distributors Association of Nigeria, PWDAN, has identified the dislodgment of a systematic drug distribution since Nigeria’s independence as the greatest challenge in the practice of pharmacy in the country. PWDAN decried that over time the dislodgment has resulted in what it described as an…
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PWDAN sets to inaugurates association
The Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN) on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to foster and promote best practices in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Its Chairman, Ernest Okafor, told newsmen in Lagos that the association would be inaugurated on May 26 in Lagos. Okafor said that various activities to commemorate the inauguration of the…
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PWDAN sets to inaugurates association on May 26
The Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN) on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to foster and promote best practices in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Its Chairman, Ernest Okafor, made this known at a news conference organized to herald the inauguration of PWDAN holding on May 26 in Lagos. Okafor said that various activities have been planned to…
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Okafor, Omaruaye, Others Canvass End to Chaotic Drug Distribution
Worried by the chaotic drug distribution channels in the country, which is fast becoming a threat, being characterised by the handling of medicines by non-professionals, circulation of fake and adulterated drug, poor storage conditions, treatment failures, among others, the Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN), has called for urgent steps to be taken…
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India factories closure: TB, cancer patients, others face risk over looming drug scarcity
Drug distributors and importers have expressed concerns over the rising number of COVID-19 cases in India, which has inevitably led to a massive death toll and temporary closure of factories. Among other things, they warned that patients, especially those with chronic ailments such as cancer, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus, and diabetes, were at risk due…
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PWDAN CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS
I am extremely delighted on behalf of the membership of the Pharmaceutical Wholesalers andDistributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN) to welcome you all to this epic making eventwhich will witness the inauguration of the association – PWDAN and also serve as the maidenconference.This event brings a new narrative in our collective responsibility to put into action…
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WELCOME ADDRESS OF THE CHAIRMAN, INAUGURATION/CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE
The chairman of this inauguration event , Brg- Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd); President of the Pharmaceutical society of Nigeria, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, FPSN; Registrar of the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria, Pharm. Dr. Elijah Mohamed; Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Fellows of the PSN here present, Chairman of the ACPN (our parent technical group)…