As part of the need to create employment and to ensure better access to medicines in Nigeria, the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole has explained that encouraging locally-manufactured medicines has been one of his major focus since his assumption in office.

The Former Vice Chancellor of University of Ibadan made this known at an international conference on the theme: Improving Access to Quality Medicines through Appropriate Legislations and Policies where he was represented at by the Director of Food and Drugs , Ministry of Health, Mrs Gloria Modupe.        

The Health Minister commended the Centre for Drug Discovery, Development and Production (CDDDP), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan for organising the conference which he described as timely and important.

He encouraged all participants to network and mingle during the course of the programme, adding that the programme should not be a talk show but should be a discourse where effective recommendations will be made to the challenge of access to essential medicines in Nigeria.

While acknowledging the presence of agencies like; NAFDAC and PSN Prof further advised that all recommendations made during the course of the conference must be effectively implemented to ensure better health care in the country.

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