Poor quality drugs administered to animals can cause cancer and other diseases in humans, due to residues present in meat and milk, recalled Friday, the Central for the purchase of veterinary drugs (CAMVERT) from breeders and other players in the livestock sector.
“Our main mission is to make quality medicines available to users. You know that just like medicines for humans, medicines for animals are also trafficked these days. And there are very poor quality drugs circulating,” said the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Veterinary Medicines Purchasing Center (CAMVERT), Dr Jean Marie Batiébo.
For Mr. Batiébo, poor quality drugs constitute a danger for livestock farming but above all for consumers.
"Because, when the product is not of good quality, it leaves residues in the meat, in the milk that we consume and this can cause cancer and other diseases", he explained.
The president of CAMVERT spoke Friday in Ouagadougou, on the occasion of the installation ceremony of the members of the board of directors of the said structure.
According to him, the main role of this central is to try to provide regulation by bringing all those who use the drugs to refer to quality drugs.
This, by importing the products according to the procedures and quality standards indicated, he noted.
CAMVERT also has the mission of making veterinary products and materials accessible, particularly in private veterinarians, healthcare practices, among breeders and at the level of State services, he concluded.
For the Minister Delegate for Livestock, Dr. Amadou Dicko, the establishment of the center reflects the will of the State to improve the acquisition of drugs and the distribution of these drugs across the country.
He invited the new board of directors of CAMVERT to apply the regulations, to enforce all the procedures for the acquisition of drugs and the distribution.
He also urged to privilege "the public health side, not only to look at the economic side of the implementation of the plant, so that we can ensure the health of animals and good health of humans".
According to Samuel Minoungou, initiatives have been undertaken by the State and its partners in the face of the situation, in order to support and improve the health of the animals, among which the privatization of the stockbreeding profession figures prominently.
“This measure has enabled greater involvement of the private sector in improving animal production and the fight against animal pathologies. To maintain this trend, it is necessary to permanently have a varied range of veterinary medicinal products available,” he said.
Created on October 20, 2015, CAMVERT, a non-profit, apolitical and non-denominational association, has the mission of ensuring the availability and accessibility of quality and quantity veterinary drugs and equipment throughout the country. burkinabe.
Source: Burkina Information Agency