As FCC, Pharmacy Board meets stakeholders …Mayor declares ‘no dues from drug peddlers’

As the Freetown City Council together with the Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone on Tuesday 17th May engaged stakeholders on the problem of drugs peddling, the Mayor of the Municipality of Freetown has declared that the council will no longer collect dues from drug peddlers.
He made this declaration while he was responding to a presentation by Wilshire Johnson, Registrar of the

Pharmacy Board on the current state of drug peddling. The presentation was done at the council’s conference hall in the presence of representatives from the traders union, police, National Revenue Authority, the FCC, Minister of Health and Sanitation, the board, among others.

In his presentation, Wilshire Johnson said “drug peddling being the sale of drugs from place to place without a license to do so” has caused a lot of development and health impact, some of which are drug resistance which worsen infections leading to complications and death; illegal importation and smuggling of substandard, falsified, falsely labelled and counterfeit drugs on the increase; drug abuse and dependence; social disorder and financial loss to the government.

publish - By Edna SmalleMay 18, 2016

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