Clandestine Sales of Anti-COVID-19 Drugs in Cameroon Sparks Controversy

Whistle Blowing and the Fight against CORONA VIRUS:

Clandestine Sales of Anti-COVID-19 Drugs in Cameroon Sparks Controversy

 A Pharmacy and a Local Medicine Store sealed and Closed in Yaounde,

Similar Exercise to be Extended to all other ten Regions of Cameroon

Barely less than two months since a gang of four individuals were Picked by the forces of law and order in Cameroon in Bafoussam for the mass fabrication, trafficking and sales of fake “Chloroquine” tablets, meant to cure, threat and prevent CORONA VIRUS,.

Anthoer gang of crooks operating legitimately under a Pharmacy and a local medical provision store yesterday Friday 17 April 2020, all based in Yaounde were nabbed in their usual unceremonious act of the sales and marketing of “CHLOROQUINE TABLETS” noted so far as alleged cure and preventives for COVID-19.

The two sales points uncovered according to Cameroon health officials are unauthorized and are in the clandestine marketing of a drug whose components are yet to be define and legalized by the Cameroon Ministry of scientific research who were just recently granted the exclusive Right to produce and supply a drug or tablet against the COVID-19 VIRUS.

This act strongly beats the imagination of the Cameroon government and the authorized Ministry in question to already have a certain drug circulating as cure and preventive for the COVID-19 VIRUS when they are still to embark on the production exercise haven’t just ordered chemicals from abroad which is still on the way.

The act, which is a serious call to health concern, has sparked a lot of confusion as the mission of the health officials who sealed the

said trafficking centers does not only end at that level but extends to those they have supplied the drugs, for whole sale, retails and

those who have bought a chunk and taken to areas hit by the pandemic in Cameroon most especially for cure to the virus.

Sources close to the brigade in charge of investigation holds that, if moves are not hasten up, more people through the consumption of the said drugs may avoid regular health tips and possibly get contaminated in the name of already having or haven’t taken preventives or cure.

As we report, owners of the Pharmacy “Le Bon Berger” and a local medicine Store “St Etiene” are under going grilling for furthern investigation for the law to take its course, since all should not be business even in times of health crisis.