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Nigerian patients feel pain of soaring drug prices

By Reuters
18 December 2023   |   3:25 am
The price of some medicines has risen almost tenfold in Nigeria in the past few months, forcing patients like Sodiq Ajibade to cut his dose or turn to traditional alternatives.

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