By Chioma Obinna

THE Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, and Dettol Antiseptic from RB stable, have warned against usage of non-certified products even as they renewed their partnership on health promotion Speaking during NMA’s 55th Annual General Conference held in Ibadan, the Marketing Director, RB West Africa, Silivrili Oghuzan, said the on-going campaign is focused on educating Nigerian families about the need for gold standard protection against germs and unwholesome products.

“We see in markets newly introduced sub-standard, non-certified antiseptic and mainly imported products which do not deliver the optimum germ killing benefit to the Nigerian families. “You cannot take the risk with your loved ones at the end of the day, half protection is no protection, so if your antiseptic liquid does protect you and your family completely. Low price is not good enough reason to buy substandard solutions, cheap products might not always be a better option considering the risk.

Dettol is 10 times better in killing germs and is the only proven brand killing 100 illness causing germs,” he said. In her presentation, Member, Global Hygiene Council, Dr. Nneoma Idika commended the initiative which is geared towards ensuring families around Nigeria are not exposed to the possible detrimental effects of using substandard and non-certified products.

“To overcome the health challenges posed by usage of substandard and non-certified products she called for an all-inclusive effort “Intervention strategies including private public participation such as championed by RB in the ‘Anti-Cheapie’ Campaign against suboptimal foods, drugs, antiseptics, cosmetics in Nigeria are highly recommended.

For improved healthcare delivery in Nigeria, proper coordination of burning issues by stakeholders will be necessary” she said. Theme of this year’s NMA conference “The Nigerian health sector: current trends, burning Issues and what the future holds”.