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The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria has sealed 115 pharmacies and 319 patent medicine shops in Plateau for violating laid down rules and guidelines. The Director of Enforcement of the PCN, Stephen Esumobi, made this known on Friday in Jos, while briefing newsmen. He said the national enforcement team of the PCN had been in…

He said the national enforcement team of the PCN had been in the state since July 4, for enforcement. ”A lot of these patent medicine vendors are not registered with the PCN and they operated in total breach of the council’s regulations. Esumobi pointed out that patent medicine shops have been licenced by the PCN to sell over the counter medicines in line with the approved drug list and it was an offence for the vendors to sell ethical medicines including substance of abuse.

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