President Gnassingbé advocates elimination of fake drugs

Togolese President, Faure Gnassingbé, has called for collaboration among West African countries, to eliminate the proliferation of fake drugs across the sub-region.

This, he said, could be positively done through providing adequate support to the local Pharmaceutical Companies, who will produce quality drugs to avoid the perennial importation of drugs.

President Gnassingbé said this when he visited the Danadams Pharmaceutical Company, as part of his three-day state visit to Ghana.

President Gnassingbé commended Danadams Pharmaceutical Company for taking up the task of producing malaria and HIV/AIDs anti-Retroviral drugs that were exported to neighbouring countries.

He appealed to Management of the company to consider establishing a subsidiary company in Lome, Togo to make their drugs accessible to the people there and beyond.

Chief Executive Officer of Danadams, Dr Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, called on governments in the West African sub-region, to support pharmaceutical companies to reduce the importation of such drugs.

President Faure Gnassingbé would be attending the second annual Professor John Evans Atta Mills Lectures at GIMPA, and also jointly inaugurate a railway project at Aflao in the Volta Region.

GNA