National Agency for Food, Drugs
Administration and Control said in Abuja on Thursday that it had
established toll-free platform for feedback on adverse drug reactions.
Coordinator, National Pharmacovigilance Centre of NAFDAC, Mrs. Adeline Osakwe, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
She urged MTN, Etisalat and Glo subscribers to text messages to 20543.
Osakwe advised the public to regard such
reports as important, stressing that the information would facilitate
the agency’s work in safeguarding the health of Nigerians.
She said, “If we get 1,000 reports and only one is genuine, we won’t mind.
“We want people to report as much as
possible so that we will begin to document what is happening to
Nigerians when they use certain medicines.
“For instance, if you take a drug for
stomach ache and you react to it, you could just text `I took this
medicine and my stomach is on fire.
“When the information gets to us, we
will call and interview you to get additional information that will
enable us to determine whether it is actually an adverse drug reaction.
“If it is serious, we can refer the
person to a hospital because we do not do clinical management of
problem, we do documentation.
“This information will help us to assist
the person and the general public because with the information we get,
we get to know the people that should not take certain medicines.”
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