Niger Agency cuts price of sanitisers, plans higher capacity

Motivated by its public service orientation, the Niger State Drugs and Hospital Consumables Management Agency is assisting citizens to manage the coronavirus challenge with lower prices on hand sanitizers that it produces. The Niger State agency produces and sells sanitizers at 100 per cent lower than current market prices.

Normally, the production of hand sanitisers and hand wash was not part of the responsibilities of the Niger state Drugs and Hospital Consumables Management Agency. The agency focused on storing drugs and consumables for the hospitals across the state. As pharmacists, officials thought they could do more than merely dispensing drugs. They could also produce., the Executive Director of the Agency told The Nation.The Agency has produced about 1000 units of sanitizers in the last two months. It has capacity to produce in larger quantities but lacks the resources to do so.

Audu said that the primary focus of the production of the sanitizers is to enable the people to be able to protect themselves from the coronavirus and enable them to get something affordable than the high rate it is currently being sold in the market. The Executive Director believes that when this is done, the people in the state would be able to get sanitizers at an affordable rate stating that, “Sanitizers should not only be for the elites. Everyone should be able to get it.”

“The hand sanitizer is more preferable because once you use it, you won’t be required to wash your hands as is the case with the handwash. The hand sanitizer is alcohol and it kills viruses and bacteria within six seconds. We are trying to optimize this expensive ingredient with ethanol which is also alcohol-based”.

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