Drawing classes from the Covid-19 pandemic, Senegal, like another African international locations, goals to make sure its pharmaceutical sovereignty. Nevertheless, an business on this sector requires a powerful regulatory authority. To attain this, certified personnel are important. Reg-pharma, a digital portal for persevering with training in pharmaceutical regulation, launched this Thursday in Dakar by Cheikh Anta Diop College, Félix Houphouët-Boigny College of Côte d’Ivoire, and the Faculty of Superior Research in Public Well being (EHESP) in France, addresses this want.
“We would like a neighborhood business, to supply ourselves, to be unbiased. That’s good, however who’s competent to regulate what’s produced? We should not let drugs turn into a poison. So, we have to practice brokers in order that they will management what’s produced domestically,” summarizes Professor Mahama Ouattara, Dean of the School of Pharmaceutical and Organic Sciences at UPHB.
The general goal is subsequently to strengthen the abilities of pharmaceutical regulatory authorities within the WAEMU and CEMAC.
Dr. Mor Diagne, technical advisor to the Minister of Well being, who presided over the launch ceremony, welcomed this development in coaching alternatives, particularly for professionals. “There are grasp’s applications in pharmaceutical regulation provided at UCAD. However right now, this platform will permit for persevering with skilled improvement,” he acknowledged.
Subsequently, as Jean-Philippe Naboulet, a teacher-researcher at EHESP, defined, these are quick, very sensible coaching programs designed to strengthen a specific ability.
The coaching programs will cowl areas similar to inspection, regulation, harmonization of texts, and the implementation of a top quality administration system. “How do you write procedures? How do you examine a advertising and marketing authorization file? How do you make sure the causal hyperlink between an adversarial drug impact? How do you confirm the causality between the adversarial impact reported by a affected person or a healthcare skilled and the truth?” lists Mr. Naboulet.
In brief, these are strategies and methods that aren’t invented and usually are not essentially discovered in a pupil’s course of examine.
For now, the initiative goals to equip African regulatory businesses with certified personnel, however the coaching may very well be prolonged to professionals working within the pharmaceutical business, at distributors or in buying facilities.
Certainly, as Professor Mahama Ouattara from Côte d’Ivoire factors out, regulators and business stakeholders do not all the time converse the identical language, which hinders collaboration. Increasing this coaching program will subsequently permit all these concerned within the pharmaceutical ecosystem to share a typical understanding of the scenario, thus fostering dialogue for the advantage of the inhabitants.
As a result of, in the end, coaching will serve not solely to have a talented workforce, but in addition to harmonize practices, in different phrases to shut the loopholes that profit producers.
On this method, Africa will be capable of fight counterfeit, substandard, or ineffective medicines. In brief, all pharmaceutical merchandise which might be unsuitable for the wants and well being of the inhabitants.
Auteur: SENEWEBPOST
Publié le: Jeudi 30 Avril 2026
