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Today we remember Dora Akunyili, the anti-fake drugs crusader whose headgear saved from assassins’ bullets.
Akunyili was Chairman of #NAFDAC,where her dogged fight against fake and counterfeit drugs won her as much enemies than admirers
Tinibu MC Oluomo #APCPresidentialPrimaries
Akunyili was Chairman of #NAFDAC,where her dogged fight against fake and counterfeit drugs won her as much enemies than admirers
Tinibu MC Oluomo #APCPresidentialPrimaries
In 1998, Akunyili, working with the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) then headed by Muhammadu Buhari, took ill and was told she required surgery. She got ready to travel to the United States for treatment and the PTF provided her $5000 for tests and $12,000 for the surgery.
But in the US where she was to undergo the surgery, it was erroneously decided that she would not need to go under the knife after all. So Akunyili returned the $12,000 to the PTF (It would be discovered years later,
Our attention has been drawn to an erroneous report by @PremiumTimesng in which insights shared in an address by our Chief Economist Dr. Andrew S. Nevin (Ph.D.) [@nevinomics] was wrongly reported. #Thread
Dr Nevin as part of his keynote address at the recent Annual National Conference of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), stated that counterfeits account for 17% of the generic drugs in supply. Cc @PremiumTimesng @NafdacAgency @DGatNAFDAC
He also added that various sources had at different times quoted different proportions for the level of counterfeits in the country. Cc @premiumtimesng @nafdacagency @DGatNAFDAC
