Kogi Inaugurates Essential Drugs Committee

[ChannelsTV]

The Kogi state government has inaugurated a Drugs Monitoring Committee to ensure that good drugs are sold out and givien to patients as part of its determination to gurantee that basic drugs are available for quality medical service delivery.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Idris Omede who disclosed this while speaking at the inauguration of the 5-man committee at the state ministry of, Lokoja.

While inaugurating the committee, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Idris Omede stated that the committee has become more imperative now more than ever before for the accountability and sustainability of essential drugs revolving scheme.

He added that the state must shift from out of stock syndrome and parallel sale drugs and other consumables.

Idris explained that the concept of essential drugs scheme is to ensure that drugs are available, accessible and affordable and in the potent form for rightful prescription in dose form to the patients and client, stressing that the essential medicines list has been reviewed five times since 2010.

In his remark, the chairman of the committee, pharmacist Joseph Achem who spoke on behalf of other members commended the state government and ministry of health for giving them the opportunity to serve the state.

Achem pledged that the committee will be diligent, professional and ethical in carrying out the assignment without witch hunting anybody, while appealing to the state government to make adequate arrangement for an effective logistics to enable the committee to carry out assignment with any hitch.

Via: ChannelsTV

[Shola Sholaz]

Brilliant one from Kogi State. Drug abuse shouldn't be tolerated anymore in this country