How Dora Akunyili transformed Nigeria’s drug safety fight Her campaign against fake medicines transformed the country's drug regulation and made her a target of powerful counterfeiters. Gender Just now
6 million worth of counterfeit products in Onitsha and Lagos in July and October 2001 respectively.
In the 1980s, while she interned at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, the World Health Organisation conducted a study, which indicated that 54 per cent of drugs in Nigerian pharmacies were counterfeit.
In four consecutive years, Dora marshalled more than 800 raids on drug distribution outlets and 90 destruction exercises targeting counterfeit and substandard medicines.
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