President Jakaya Kikwete with presidents Uhuru Kenyatta (third right) of
Kenya and Yoweri Museveni (second right) of Uganda and (from left)
Zanzibar Second Vice President Seif Ali Idd, Rwandan Prime Minister
Pierre Damien Habumuremyi and Burundian First Vice President Prosper
Bazombaza unveil the East African Court of Justice guidebook during the
12th Extraordinary Summit of EAC Heads of State in Arusha yesterday.
PHOTO | FILBERT RWEYEMAMU
Arusha. The East African Community (EAC) partner states have been urged to strengthen their national medicines regulatory bodies for improved service delivery.
At the same time, the Arusha-based secretariat has
been requested to work on the establishment of the proposed EAC’s
Medicines and Food Safety Commission.
The ministerial meeting on harmonising medicines
registration which ended here on Friday called for human resource
capacity building and infracture as well as institutional development in
the medical sector.
The meeting was organised by the EAC secretariat
in collaboration with the African Union (AU) - New Partnership for
Africa’s Development Agency (Nepad) and Africa’s Medicines Regulatory
Harmonization (AMRH) Partners.
The one-day Donors’ Roundtable that followed, in
particular, was geared to expand the donor funding base for AMRH in
order to consolidate the EAC progress and drive the expansion of the
initiative.
Four EAC member countries, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi
and Rwanda were urged to establish regulatory bodies for food and
medicines along the lines of the Tanzania Food and Drug Authority
(TFDA).
The Community secretariat was further urged to
speed up development of harmonized EAC Pharmaceutical Policy as well as
the required legal and regulatory framework.
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