The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to support investment in the local manufacturing of drugs, saying the country does not need to import everything it needs.
Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kachollom Daju, stated this after she was conferred with an honorary fellowship by the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists in Abuja.
According to her, there’s so much needed in the health sector, noting that the ministry is working with all industry players in the medical sector that requires quality services and universal health coverage.
“We can unlock the value chain by ensuring that we have local manufacturers of things we need in Nigeria because we don’t need to import everything we need.
“This fellowship bestowed upon me today is a call to duty to double the efforts of what I have done, and I have assured the industry that they shall not regret what they have done,” she said.
Minister of State for Health, Tunji Alausa, said nobody in Nigeria today deserves the honor more than the recipient.
He said that the quality and the reason they chose her for the fellowship award are what everybody should aspire to.
“Daju is diligent, committed, transparent, hardworking, and, moreover, in the way she attends to things, she does so with fair manners and does not see one profession in the sector as superior to the other,” Alausa said.
On his part, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Ibrahim Abubakar Kana, said: “This recognition today is the result of her hard work and dedication to duty, most importantly, fairness to all health workers within the health space.”
