Vaccines: NAFDAC And Pharmaceutical Companies Have Partnered To Achieve WHO Maturity Level 4.
As part of efforts to achieve World Health Organization (WHO) Maturity Level 4 status and establish Nigeria in the league of Vaccines and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) producers in the world, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) announced that it has reached an agreement with major players in the country’s pharmaceutical industry under the aegis of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Group- Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (PMG-MAN).
The manufacturers applauded NAFDAC for reaching WHO Maturity Level 3, under the leadership of Dr. Fidelis Ayebae, Chairman of PMG-MAN, and vowed to “do everything in our power to support NAFDAC to continue to succeed in establishing an enabling environment for the industry to prosper.
At the hybrid stakeholders meeting on pharmaceutical traceability that the agency organized in Lagos, the director general of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, stated that the country had to maintain the Maturity Level 3 attained the previous year by continuing to strictly follow the Best Global Practices in regulatory responsibility.
In addition to ML4, we will receive a mark for World Listed Authority “She spoke. She stated that ML4 would aid in the development of the nation’s manufacturing sector and that ML3 took Ghana 13 years to obtain whereas ML4 required Nigeria only four.”