After suffering food poisoning on a movie set, Nollywood actress and producer Mary Remmy Njoku has voiced doubts about the effectiveness of drugs in Nigeria.
In a Tuesday Instagram post, the actress expressed concern about the potential spread of counterfeit drugs after taking Imodium, a prescription that reduces the incidence of diarrhoea.
According to the mother of three, she took the tablet which was purchased from one of the biggest pharmacy chains in Nigeria but the symptoms still persisted after three days.
However, when her husband gave her a tiny tablet of the same Imodium he bought abroad, she felt better within five minutes.
She called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to urgently look into the matter.
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“Let me share a recent experience: I had a bit of food poisoning on a set. Sent a staff to buy Imodium from the arguably one of the biggest pharmacy chains in Nigeria. A medication I’ve used many times before. I took it for three days straight, and nothing changed. The symptoms didn’t stop,” she wrote.
“Then my husband returned from a trip and gave me a tiny tablet of the same Imodium. this time from abroad. I took it, and within five minutes, my stomach calmed down. Just five minutes!”
“This isn’t my first time noticing this kind of difference. So I have to ask: What exactly are we being sold in Nigeria? What’s going on with our drugs? This is a public health risk and NAFDAC must take it seriously. This is dangerous.”
Netizens Blame The East Over Increase In Fake Drugs!
Meanwhile some netizens have blamed the east for the continuous rise in peddling of fake drugs
Some of the comment reads:
“When the same nafdac sealed fake pharmaceutical stores in the east, ur brothers and sisters call it witch hunting”
“We all know those behind the fake drugs industry and we should stand by nafdaq when they took action. No one is witch hunting anybody”
“Mary Njoku,, the answer to your question is not far fetched. Please appeal on behalf of all Nigerians to your evil minded brothers, who are non pharmacists, nor licenced pharmaceutical products manufacturers and importers tó STOP killing Nigerians through importation and manufacturing of fake drugs. Despite all the seizures at the ports and raids on their warehouses in the East, they still are unrelenting in dealing in fake pharmaceuticals in their quest to be wealthy.”