drugs in line with what people can afford purchasing drugs in neighbouring cameroon and congo but also in france meant that he could keep costs down he said for example a box of vogalene an antinausea medication costs 7000 cfa francs 11 but you can get it here for 5000 he said worried regulators the cars pharmaceutical regulators are struggling against a phenomenon that for all its faults meets a desperate social need we dont work with the minipharmacies said romuald ouefio head of the department of pharmaceutics and traditional medicine at the health ministry they are in the informal sector and encourage the spread of drugs of poorer quality or counterfeit ones he said there have already been cases of antibiotic resistance through the incorrect use of drugs in a few months time we are going to have a meeting with owners so that they are prepared for switching to other lines of work he said describing this as a prior step before a very firm crackdown jules dawili who runs a medical lab in bangui agreed that antibiotic resistance had become a concern because of misuse of drugs or overthecounter sales he pointed especially to amoxicillin used for treating bacterial infections and doxycycline for preventive treatment of malaria even so dawili said he did not feel 100 percent supportive of the crackdown some of them the unlicensed pharmacists are competent he said the government could select these ones give them training and make them pass tests so that they can help health professionals if the government closes the minipharmacies it will be doing nothing for people who cant afford drugs in registered outlets said nesly the young mother a lot of people are going to die