The National Drug Authority (NDA) has arrested six veterinary officers for possessing illegal anti-foot and mouth disease drugs
The veterinary officers were allegedly selling the drugs to farmers in the districts of Kazo, Kiruhura and Lyantonde with high animal populations.
The officers claimed that the drug labelled Anti-efmdi is very helpful in healing animal wounds caused by foot and mouth disease.
The unnamed officers were picked from their drug shops in Kazo town during a joint security operation in which five boxes containing anti-efmdi sachets in different quantities were impounded and handed over to police as exhibits.
Dr Jeanne Muhindo, the head of Veterinary products in the National Drug Authority (NDA) said that foot and mouth disease has no drug but a vaccine or antibiotics to treat the affected animals
Dr Muhindo who noted that people are using the current situation of foot and mouth disease to fleece farmers of their money further said that scientifically NDA can’t know what anti-efmdi contains because its quality and efficacy has not been approved by the authority.
She said such a drug can easily introduce strange diseases or other problems to the animal sector and people like how the purported counterfeited acaricides that included tick burn and other agrochemicals are causing blindness, repeat breeding, low milk production and skin reaction in animals.
Farmers were spending between seventy and seventy-five thousand shillings to buy the purported anti-efmdi drug supplied and illegally advertised by royal agro vet company
John Babagye Barigye, Kazo district deputy internal Security officials said that despite the distribution and selling of the anti-efmdi drug animals have continued to die a reason that forced security organs in the area to create task forces at sub-county levels to demobilize farmers from using the drug.
Kazo and Kiruhara, Lyantonde, Ibanda, Isingiro, Sheema and Mbarara are among districts that have been hit hard by Foot and Mouth disease since December 2020 and are currently under quarantine.
The National Drug Authority (NDA) has arrested six veterinary officers for possessing illegal anti-foot and mouth disease drugs
The veterinary officers were allegedly selling the drugs to farmers in the districts of Kazo, Kiruhura and Lyantonde with high animal populations.
The officers claimed that the drug labelled Anti-efmdi is very helpful in healing animal wounds caused by foot and mouth disease.
The unnamed officers were picked from their drug shops in Kazo town during a joint security operation in which five boxes containing anti-efmdi sachets in different quantities were impounded and handed over to police as exhibits.
Dr Jeanne Muhindo, the head of Veterinary products in the National Drug Authority (NDA) said that foot and mouth disease has no drug but a vaccine or antibiotics to treat the affected animals
Dr Muhindo who noted that people are using the current situation of foot and mouth disease to fleece farmers of their money further said that scientifically NDA can’t know what anti-efmdi contains because its quality and efficacy has not been approved by the authority.
She said such a drug can easily introduce strange diseases or other problems to the animal sector and people like how the purported counterfeited acaricides that included tick burn and other agrochemicals are causing blindness, repeat breeding, low milk production and skin reaction in animals.
Farmers were spending between seventy and seventy-five thousand shillings to buy the purported anti-efmdi drug supplied and illegally advertised by royal agro vet company
John Babagye Barigye, Kazo district deputy internal Security officials said that despite the distribution and selling of the anti-efmdi drug animals have continued to die a reason that forced security organs in the area to create task forces at sub-county levels to demobilize farmers from using the drug.
Kazo and Kiruhara, Lyantonde, Ibanda, Isingiro, Sheema and Mbarara are among districts that have been hit hard by Foot and Mouth disease since December 2020 and are currently under quarantine.