Health News of Friday, 25 June 2021Source: Pharmaceutical Society of GhanaThe Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has noted with great concern a publication on Ghanaweb.com and on some media portals attributed to Dr. Maxwell Antwi, Country Director of PharmAccess Ghana. The publication states in part that “about 30% of medicines in Ghana are either fake or substandard”. The PSGH questions the basis of this assertion especially so when Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has over the years worked tirelessly to guarantee the safety, quality, and efficacy of both imported and locally manufactured medicines. The PSGH wishes to state that current evidence does not support this assertion as Ghana is known to have one of the best regulated pharmaceutical sectors on the continent of Africa. However, if this alleged pronouncement is untrue, PharmAccess Ghana is to ensure that the article is retracted and an unqualified apology rendered to the various stakeholders as such publications have the tendency to engender a lack of confidence in the healthcare delivery system especially the pharmaceutical sector.

Source: GhanaWeb June 25, 2021 13:41 UTC