A medical practitioner with general hospital Lagos,? Dr Tajudeen Salami , has called on the Federal Government to create offices of the National Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in all the ports of the country.
Salami told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday? in Lagos that this would help check the importation of fake medical equipment into the country.
He said that it was becoming alarming for Nigerians to be diagnosed with fake machines that the operators claim could detect all the ailments in the human body.
Salami said that in most cases, the latest one which the operators call “the Chinese scanner”, was being taken to offices, schools and churches by some fake health organisations who claim that once a person places his or her hands on it, it would detect and show all the areas in the body where they have ailments.
He said that such equipment was fake as these problems were configurated into the machine to make people think they have the ailments.
The medical practitioner added that such equipment could not be found in any of the general hospitals and was not approved by the Ministry of Health and Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
“There is no equipment? which can automatically tell you that your liver is enlarged or that you have hypertension and diabetes, all at the same time”, he said.