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Diourbel, July 31 (APS) – The illicit drug market is '' still a reality '' in the Diourbel region, where people continue to stock their supplies parallel circuits, '' causing a lot of damage to their health '', said Tuesday Dr. Balla Mbacké Mboup, medical chief of the medical region.
"We must be sorry that the medical region is still facing the scourge the illicit market of fake medicines with a lot of sanitary damage caused by the marketing of unsuitable medicines ", he said, in particular.
He received from the medical region of Diourbel journalists specialized in health field visit in the framework for the implementation of the Yeksi Naa initiative of the National Pharmacy Supply (PNA).
'Today, the link is quickly made to the level of the region between the frequency of chronic renal failure that starts to be high and the use of fake drugs, even if no study has been done '', noted Dr. Mboup.
'' These drugs are consumed by the populations because they are sold relatively cheaper, but if we compare the advantages and the disadvantages, it would be much more judicious for the populations to take the drugs of the structures of health rather than those of the street '', a-
"Unfortunately," he said, "the city of Touba and other secondary cities that are home to weekly markets continue to sell street drugs."
At the beginning of 2018, two trucks loaded with illicit drugs were arrested by the Touba Belel Gendarmerie. The shipment was estimated at about one billion CFA francs.
'' That's even more than that figure since only samples were taken from the shipment in the presence of the College of Pharmacists '', said the doctor -chef which evokes the figure of 3 billion francs.
According to him, the initiative '' Yeksina '' which makes it possible to make accessible geographically and financially the medicines at the level of the structures of health can '' help enormously to stem the the scourge of the use of street drugs. "
" PRA plays its role well, especially in communication with the districts, which is the success of the policy in the Diourbel region, "he said. Dr. Mboup
The key to success lies in a very committed PRA team in Diourbel, which communicates on its procurement policy in a very broad way, "he said.
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