Charles Wambebe, chief executive officer of the International Biomedical Research Institute in Abuja, Nigeria, and former director-general of NIPRD, says: "The development is a good one for the country. Now sickle cell sufferers in Nigeria can access the drug cheaply".
"Seeing that Xechem failed to live up to their expectations, let the status quo remain — that is, NIPRD producing the drug for Nigerians. After all Xechem did not add any value to the whole process," he told SciDev.Net.
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