NAFDAC reveals 5 key pillars that can information its operations in 2025
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has outlined the company’s focus for 2025, which is able to revolve round 5 key pillars to information its operations.
She disclosed this throughout a information convention on Thursday in Lagos, the place NAFDAC offered its priorities for the approaching yr.
Adeyeye defined that these strategic pillars will assist NAFDAC fulfill its mandate to make sure the protection, efficacy, and high quality of meals, medication, and different regulated merchandise in Nigeria.
Five pillars of focus
According to her, the pillars embrace robust governance and management, maternal, new child, and little one well being, institutionalization of greatest practices, security and high quality of regulated merchandise, and monitoring of the provision chain.
Reflecting on her seven-year tenure, Adeyeye mentioned, “These years have brought into focus the many accomplishments achieved in NAFDAC and so many others yet to be attained. This realization has sharpened my focus on how to strategically work towards continued strengthening of the regulatory system as a needed path toward safeguarding the health of the nation.”
Strengthening the Industry
According to her, NAFDAC will give attention to unlocking the worth chain by strengthening the business and making certain entry to high quality regulated merchandise.
She famous that robust governance and management would play a vital position in protecting the company’s workforce extremely motivated and disciplined, with workers coaching remaining a high precedence.
Improving maternal and little one well being
The DG emphasised the company’s dedication to enhancing the protection and high quality of regulated merchandise, significantly for maternal, new child, and little one well being and vitamin. She defined that this strategy would assist forestall postpartum haemorrhage, scale back maternal deaths, and considerably decrease little one morbidity.
“Great emphasis will be placed on paediatric antimalarials and antibiotics,” she mentioned. “Manufacturers will be incentivised to develop paediatric medicines and handheld toward achieving WHO prequalification.”
Tackling staffing challenges
Adeyeye identified that the company is severely understaffed.
“The number of staff that an agency has or should have depends on the population of the country because it is easier to regulate a country with one million than a country with 300 million people,” she defined.
She highlighted the hole, saying, “Based on our inhabitants, we’re alleged to don’t have anything lower than 10,000 workers. However, we at present have about 2,000.
“We burn candles on each ends, overstress ourselves as a result of we’ve to safeguard the well being of Nigerians.
“We are not asking for 10,000 staff now; we are just asking for double or triple what we currently have,” she added.
