Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-Basic of the Nationwide Company for Meals and Drug Administration and Management (NAFDAC) has outlined the company’s focus for 2025, which can revolve round 5 key pillars to information its operations.
She disclosed this throughout a information convention on Thursday in Lagos, the place NAFDAC offered its priorities for the approaching 12 months.
Adeyeye defined that these strategic pillars will assist NAFDAC fulfill its mandate to make sure the protection, efficacy, and high quality of meals, medicine, and different regulated merchandise in Nigeria.
5 pillars of focus
Based on her, the pillars embody sturdy governance and management, maternal, new child, and baby well being, institutionalization of finest practices, security and high quality of regulated merchandise, and monitoring of the availability chain.
Reflecting on her seven-year tenure, Adeyeye mentioned, “These years have introduced into focus the numerous accomplishments achieved in NAFDAC and so many others but to be attained. This realization has sharpened my concentrate on the way to strategically work in the direction of continued strengthening of the regulatory system as a wanted path towards safeguarding the well being of the nation.”
Strengthening the Trade
Based on her, NAFDAC will concentrate on unlocking the worth chain by strengthening the trade and making certain entry to high quality regulated merchandise.
She famous that sturdy governance and management would play a vital function in preserving the company’s workforce extremely motivated and disciplined, with employees coaching remaining a high precedence.
Enhancing maternal and baby well being
The DG emphasised the company’s dedication to enhancing the protection and high quality of regulated merchandise, notably for maternal, new child, and baby well being and vitamin. She defined that this strategy would assist stop postpartum haemorrhage, cut back maternal deaths, and considerably decrease baby morbidity.
“Nice emphasis might be positioned on paediatric antimalarials and antibiotics,” she mentioned. “Producers might be incentivised to develop paediatric medicines and handheld towards attaining WHO prequalification.”
Tackling staffing challenges
Adeyeye identified that the company is severely understaffed.
“The variety of employees that an company has or ought to have is determined by the inhabitants of the nation as a result of it’s simpler to manage a rustic with a million than a rustic with 300 million folks,” she defined.
She highlighted the hole, saying, “Based mostly on our inhabitants, we’re purported to don’t have anything lower than 10,000 employees. Nevertheless, we at the moment have about 2,000.
“We burn candles on each ends, overstress ourselves as a result of we’ve to safeguard the well being of Nigerians.
“We’re not asking for 10,000 employees now; we’re simply asking for double or triple what we at the moment have,” she added.
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