ECOMED Pharma Denies Producing Affected Amoxycillin Batch
The assertions about the creation of the impacted amoxycillin batch with number 4C639001 have been denied by the management of ECOMED Pharma Ltd, the 2023 Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company of the Year and the recipient of the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award. It claimed that Divine Kings Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical marketing company in Lagos, dishonestly copied the product rather than the pharmaceutical company producing the inferior batch.
A public notice regarding the safety-related recall of the impacted batch of amoxycillin was previously released by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), which advised the public and medical professionals to refrain from purchasing and administering the impacted products to patients.
The agency’s public alert, which was circulated by the Directorate of Pharmaceutical Services, Lagos State Primary Health Care Board to all healthcare professionals and patients, further expatiated on the negative impacts of the recalled drugs on patients, highlighting how reports of serious adverse drug reactions were received from a hospital that reported three cases of severe adverse drug reactions from patients administered with the batch of Deekins Amoxycillin 500mg capsule.
However, the Managing Director of ECOMED, Pharm. Ekene Christopher has cleared the air on the development, describing the affected Amoxycillin with batch number 4C639001, as fake, as it does not emanate from the company.
In an exclusive interview with Pharmanewsonline, the ECOMED boss said, “We want to reiterate here that the “DEEKINS AMOXYCILLIN” with batch number 4C639001 in circulation was not produced by ECOMED PHARMA LTD. It is a fake product cloned by DIVINE KINGS PHARMA with our name on it.”
He explained how his company alerted NAFDAC’s Pharmacovigilance section on the development and immediately initiated a recall of the product, due to the mischievous attachment of their name to the packs of the product by the adulterator.
