UCH CMD calls for renewed action against fake drugs

The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University
College Hospital (UCH), Professor Tope Alonge, has
called for renewed commitment and efforts towards
the African child's survival and health, particularly
with regard to fake drugs that threaten treatment of
diseases in children.
The UCH CMD made these remarks at a public
enlightenment lecture organised by a non-
governmental organisation (NGO), Dorcas Oke Hope
Alive Initiative (DOHAL), held at the Conference
Centre, University of Ibadan on Saturday.
While identifying malaria, measles, pneumonia,
diarrhoea etc. as some of the diseases that challenge
the well being of the African child, Professor Alonge
maintained that the menace of fake drug had further
compounded efforts of medical experts to contain
these health challenges.
The lecture, entitled; Fake Drugs and the Survival of
the African Child, was attended by former Director of
the Institute of African Studies, Professor (Mrs.)
Bolanle Awe; Pastor of the Sword of the Spirit
Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, and his wife,
Reverend (Mrs.) Oke, among other prominent
Nigerians.
Alonge said the survival of the African child
depended on water, food, shelter, education, faith
and medicine, adding that lack of these had made
"Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, the most
difficult place in the world for a child to survive."