On Sunday, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), reassured Nigerians that COVID-19 vaccines produced in the nation will adhere to international standards.
Adeyeye reportedly said this during the oversight visit of the House of Representatives Committee on COVID-19 to the NAFDAC facilities and COVID-19 laboratory projects in Lagos, according to a statement released by NAFDAC’s Resident Media Consultant, Sayo Akintola.
The construction of the new COVID-19 laboratory demonstrates the need for major expenditure, according to the NAFDAC director, in the effort to combat COVID-19.
She claimed that the laboratory’s contemporary amenities and equipment were a big benefit for the nation.
Adeyeye lamented that the health sector had been neglected before the present administration responded through the National Assembly COVID-19 Committee.
“We have the African Free trade Agreement already here with us now for the nation’s pharmaceutical industry to take advantage of with quality products.
“There will be a lot of competition and if NAFDAC’s laboratory is not strengthened, we will not be able to compete.
“For vaccines, we are hoping that the vaccine facilities from the public-private partnership will soon happen but if the regulatory agency is not strong, we can make vaccines that will destroy our own people.”
“Nigeria can now make its own vaccines and we can assure the populace that there is quality in whatever is being manufactured because of NAFDAC’s strength.”
