By Fatima Zahra Muhammad
ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago has sought partnership with the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) in a bid to tackle drug abuse in the state.
Bago stated this when he received on a courtesy call, the Niger state chairman of the PSN, Pharmacist Yakubu Maji Isah.
Bago said that the government was considering the inclusion of some special advisers appointed by him to join the PSN in finding lasting solutions to the menace.
He also said that the state government was open to partnering with any individual or organization to set up a pharmacy and any public hospital that would provide services to patients at a subsidized cost.
On its part, the PSN advised the Niger State government to increase manpower at the social rehabilitation center in the state.
The PSN chairman, who said that Niger state is among the leading states in the provision of pharmaceutical services added that there are technical arms under the PSN which are faced with issues of multiple taxation.
He therefore appealed for harmonization of the taxes for easy payments.
