The Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control,
the drugs and food regulatory agency in Nigeria, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, has said that Nigeria
has 30 left on the list of requirements put in place by the World Health
Organisation for the production of local vaccines in the country.
The
NAFDAC boss disclosed this during an interview with news men.
According
to Adeyeye, the WHO laid down 240 requirements and Nigeria has been able to
meet 210 of them.
She
said, “What the world body is trying to do right now is to make sure that
Africa has the capacity to manufacture vaccines and that is what is going on as
we speak.
“However,
to be able to manufacture vaccines, NAFDAC has to be strong enough to control.
“We
have been working on this for about three years. When I came in, that was what
I dug into.
“We have over 240 quality system requirements
that we have to meet. As of a week plus ago, we had about 30 requirements left.
“It is still a lot, but as we are speaking because the WHO
people are coming in three weeks; we have sent them everything we have to serve
as evidence. When we get to that level, Nigeria can start manufacturing
vaccines.”
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