By Solomon T Gaye
Residents of Ganta are becoming The Ministry of Commerce’s closure of NAND Pharmaceutical Inc. branch over the sale of an expired pharmaceutical products as well as its abrupt reopening in Nimba County over the weekend.
It was a public show in Ganta City recently when the MoC closed down the NAND Pharmaceutical on accusation that some expired drugs were on sale but reopened the pharmacy without imposing a fine to serve at the deterrent of the residents which is worrisome.
Accordingly, the pharmacy was opened during a visit of Commerce Inspector General Dorr Cooper at the pharmacy with his staff before departing for Monrovia stating, “We want to know the outcome of the case leading to the pharmacy being booked selling expired medical products and its outcome.”
The Ministry of Commerce recently locked the NAND pharmaceutical INC Branch in Ganta after the discovery of some expired products on the sale but to the surprise of many of the residents, the pharmacy is reopened in the wake Dorr Cooper and staff’s visit at the Pharmacy and remain tightlipped in the issue.
NAND is a licensed pharmaceutical and distributors of a pharmaceutical products that is operated by a Lebanese national in Ganta.
Since the closure and reopening of that pharmaceutical distributors, MOC local officials and Inspector General Dorr Cooper remain tight-lipped over the outcome of the investigations.
When this paper contacted NAND Pharmaceutical Inc. in Ganta, the dispenser boasted that the case has been resolved by the inspector general and the County Inspector, Billy Fehn.
Fehn has referred the paper to Cooper on grounds that he is not clothed with the authority to speak to press and Cooper via mobile phone disclosed the seizure of huge expired pharmaceutical products from the NAND Pharmaceutical in Ganta.
“We seize the expired drugs but the Ministry of Commerce is not clothed with the authority to impose a fine on such case. We turned the expired products to either the Ministry of Health or the LDEA. Please contact Billy Fehn to call the name of the entity,” Inspector Cooper instructed.
Fehn said the confiscated expired drugs were turned over to the Liberia Medicine and Health Regulatory Authority for investigations but the LMHRA office at Ganta main border said the information regarding the expired drugs is not to the knowledge of junior staff.
“We don’t know anything about what you are telling us, please wait for our boss to come from Monrovia to speak to you on the issue,” LMHRA worker preferred.
