Famend Nollywood actress and producer, Mary Remmy Njoku, has raised issues over the competence of medicines in Nigeria following a current expertise with meals poisoning on a movie set.
In a publish shared on Instagram, the actress raised an alarm about potential pretend medicine circulating within the nation.
Njoku recounted how she bought Imodium, a medicine used to deal with diarrhea, from a distinguished pharmacy chain in Nigeria.
She defined that regardless of taking the remedy for 3 days, her signs endured.
Nevertheless, when her husband gave her the identical remedy bought overseas, she skilled reduction inside minutes.
The mom of three appealed to the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management, NAFDAC, to take swift motion to analyze the matter.
She mentioned, “I wish to share a current expertise: I had meals poisoning on a set and despatched a workers member to purchase Imodium from a widely known pharmacy chain in Nigeria.
“A drugs I’ve used many occasions earlier than. I took it for about three days however my signs endured.
“Then my husband purchased a tiny pill of the identical Imodium from overseas and after taking it, my abdomen points subsided inside simply 5 minutes.
“This isn’t the primary time I’ve observed a distinction. So I’ve to ask: What precisely are we being bought in Nigeria? What’s happening with our medicine?
“This can be a public well being danger and NAFDAC should take it severely. That is very harmful.”
