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Distinguished guests, industry leaders, and colleagues…. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the Annual Conference and Exhibition 2024 of thePharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria. The theme for this year’sconference, “ENHANCING ACCESS TO QUALITY, SAFE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE MEDICINES.THE ROLE OF THE PHARMA DISTRIBUTOR/WHOLESALERS IN NIGERIA,” is a testament…

Some Nigerians, especially those who need to buy drugs for one health condition or the other, have said they are encountering hardship in procuring drugs from out-of-pocket expenses as their prices continue to increase. The rising price of drugs in Nigeria has been linked to the non-production of pharmaceutical raw materials in drug-producing countries such…

For Nigeria to attain medicine security as well as a consistent flow of affordable drugs, there has to be a functional pharmaceutical supply chain and holistic sanitisation of the wholesale and distribution system of pharmaceutical products. This was the submission experts who gathered at the inauguration ceremony of the Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN),…

The newly inaugurated Pharmaceutical Wholesalers and Distributors Association of Nigeria (PWDAN) has been urged to work assiduously to achieve the association’s objectives. Dr. Ahmed Yakasai, a former President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), made the call virtually at the inauguration ceremony of PWDAN on Wednesday. Yakasai, also the Chairman of the inauguration ceremony,…

Managing Director of JNC International, a pharmaceutical company, Clare Omatseye, 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 in Ikeja, Lagos. She spoke as a keynote speaker at the inauguration…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…