Friday Olokor , Abuja
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria , has called on the Federal Government to pay more attention to production of local vaccines .
The organisation was reacting to the outbreak of disease , including Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the five Northern States in country.
The National President AMLSN , Toyosi Raheem , made the demand during a press conference on Friday in Abuja , to commemorate the 2017 World Biomedical Science Day with the theme : “‘ Antibiotics resistance: biomedical laboratory scientists response to the global threat. ”
While lamenting the collapse of the Local vaccines Production Centre in Yaba , Lagos State, he stressed the need for government to pay serious attention to emerging and re-emerging diseases .
He also called on government to lay more emphasis on the production of local vaccines .
Raheem said, “ The AMLSN is calling on all to rise up to the current challenge of meningitis type C that is claiming lives in our country. Let us see it as a call to duty once again. It is time to improve on public health awareness so that people will know how to prevent the infection.
“ It is also time to update our skills on laboratory diagnosis of all infectious agents so that none escapes our radar and cause havoc to innocent Nigerians . Let our focus be on research and development with emphasis on indigenous vaccine research and development .
“ The Federal Government should face the production of local vaccines in the country , this will not only save our country huge foreign exchange but also provide homegrown solution to our peculiar health challenges .
“ Nigeria was producing sufficient bacterial vaccines but politics and in-house disorder has led to the total collapse of the laboratory in Yaba which has become home to rats . This is not how to manage what we have neither is it how to commit to health . We cannot continue to be ridiculed by emerging and reemerging diseases . ”
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria , has called on the Federal Government to pay more attention to production of local vaccines .
The organisation was reacting to the outbreak of disease , including Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the five Northern States in country.
The National President AMLSN , Toyosi Raheem , made the demand during a press conference on Friday in Abuja , to commemorate the 2017 World Biomedical Science Day with the theme : “‘ Antibiotics resistance: biomedical laboratory scientists response to the global threat. ”
While lamenting the collapse of the Local vaccines Production Centre in Yaba , Lagos State, he stressed the need for government to pay serious attention to emerging and re-emerging diseases .
He also called on government to lay more emphasis on the production of local vaccines .
Raheem said, “ The AMLSN is calling on all to rise up to the current challenge of meningitis type C that is claiming lives in our country. Let us see it as a call to duty once again. It is time to improve on public health awareness so that people will know how to prevent the infection.
“ It is also time to update our skills on laboratory diagnosis of all infectious agents so that none escapes our radar and cause havoc to innocent Nigerians . Let our focus be on research and development with emphasis on indigenous vaccine research and development .
“ The Federal Government should face the production of local vaccines in the country , this will not only save our country huge foreign exchange but also provide homegrown solution to our peculiar health challenges .
“ Nigeria was producing sufficient bacterial vaccines but politics and in-house disorder has led to the total collapse of the laboratory in Yaba which has become home to rats . This is not how to manage what we have neither is it how to commit to health . We cannot continue to be ridiculed by emerging and reemerging diseases . ”
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