The Control and Quality Department of the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (Arp) wants to maintain maturity level three for medicines, but also an achievement for the vaccine. A wish expressed by Professor Djibril Fall to the director of Arp, Dr Alioune Ibnou Abou Talib Diouf, visiting their premises yesterday, Friday November 15. Taking advantage of this platform, Professor Fall pleaded for more financial means, quality human resources but also for the availability of reagents in order to achieve the set objectives. A plea which found a favorable response since the director of the Arp committed to working in the same direction.
Yesterday, Friday, residents of the Quality Control Directorate (Dicq) received a visit from the director of the Arp, Dr Alioune Ibnou Abou Talib Diouf. An opportunity seized by the director of Dicq to advocate for more financial resources but also quality human resources. For Professor Djibril Fall, his management really wants it to be much more visible with the standardization of ISO 1705 accreditation. “We want to maintain maturity level three for drugs, but also for the vaccine.” For Professor Djibril Fall, from the point of view of capacity building, his management carried out 18 training courses in 2023, therefore 8 internally and 10 externally. A training plan for 2024 has also been carried out in India, Egypt and South Africa, and soon in Botswana.. “The staff is managed equally well from a performance point of view and it is within this framework that authorizations are made for the technical staff since, as we usually say, you can be a doctor in chemistry without being able to manipulate a tool”, he stated in the policy for strengthening the skills of his staff. From the point of view of activities, Professor Fall put forward: “we saw that in 2022, we had 356 samples that were analyzed. In 2023, because of this work stoppage, only 46 samples were analyzed. Some of these samples, moreover, were received in 2023 and were analyzed in 2024, when we joined the laboratory. To date, we have 569 samples and analyzes continue “. In carrying out their duties, the staff of the Control and Quality Department are faced with problems such as the unavailability of certain reagents. A situation which leads Professor Fall to plead before the director of the Arp for a lasting solution. On the Arp side, the general director is committed to providing the means to achieve the objectives of this department. “ At the ARP level, we have a proactive policy of achieving performance, I would even say top performance. She would like us to have the highest possible international standards. And this requires investing in infrastructure, in equipment, in equipping ourselves with personnel that we must capacitate on a day-to-day basis, and also in having clear, transparent and robust procedures that allow us to compete on a number of levels. continental and even global levels », argued Dr Diouf.
Denise ZAROUR MEDANG
Senegal
