The resolve of the administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf to boost the capacity of the Kano State Drugs and Medical Consumables Supply Agency’s (DMCSA) Drugs Manufacturing Unit (DMU) has been restated.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, stated this weekend while inaugurating the Drug Manufacturing Unit Committee and the Committee for the Integration of the KSCHMA DRF and the Facility DRF, at the DMCSA premises.
In a statement issued by information officer, Ministry of Health, Ibrahim Abdullahi, the commissioner said the DMU is a very important unit that produces locally made drugs.
Dr. Labaran said the aim is to protect the teeming populace of the state from consuming substandard and counterfeit drugs in circulation. He added that by upgrading of the DMU, the state would have more lines of drug production and the unit would become capable of producing the needed essential drugs for the state.
The commissioner assured that by so doing, the government owned facilities and interested private facilities would patronise drugs from the DMCSA because of its quality and affordability.
On harmonising KSCHMA DRF with Facility DRF, Dr. Labaran stated that the integration is important because it would provide better insight of what is happening in the facilities regarding the KSCHMA DRF.
He said the integration would allow for improved availability of qualitative and affordable drugs to KSCHMA clients.
Dr. Labaran added that the move is to reverse the case of inadequate availability of quality medicines by making sure that relevant drugs are readily available for the KSCHMA clients in the health facilities at all the times.
