Guineans looking for medicine will now have to go to pharmacies. The authorities want to eradicate the parallel market for pharmaceutical products, but are also trying to shut down clandestine clinics. All professionals who do not have approval had until Thursday to stop their activity.
With our correspondent in Conakry, Matthias Raynal
An exchange meeting was organized on Friday, September 16, at the governorate of the city of Conakry. In the crowded room, neighborhood leaders, mayors, market administrators and a few pharmacists. In front of them, officials detail the state’s strategy to curb the scourge of fake drugs.
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Many Guineans are used to buying on the black market. The State is ready to take over, according to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Mohamed Lamine Yansané. “ The state freed up all the capital of the central pharmacy of Guinea which had time to order drugs at the level of the manufacturers. And the dispatching is made. Our goal is for public medicines to be available up to the last mile inside the country. »
Accompanying measures must allow the installation of young pharmacists in the prefectures where there is no private point of sale.
“ endless war »
” This war is endless, 90% of these points of sale today are closed, explains the boss of the national gendarmerie, Colonel Balla Samoura. This will not prevent mopping up patrols from being held in all the cities and throughout the national territory. »
Three pickup and two 4x4s set off, heading for the Niger market. ” Whoever tries to reopen, it is the law that will decide his fate. It’s as simple as it is clear. No vendor dared to open that morning. But will it last? The previous ban in 2019 did not yield long-term results.