Quality Assessment of Some Essential Children’s Medicines Sold in Licensed Outlets in Ashanti Region, Ghana
المؤلفون المشاركون
Frimpong, Grace
Ofori-Kwakye, Kwabena
Kuntworbe, Noble
Buabeng, Kwame Ohene
Osei, Yaa Asantewaa
Boakye-Gyasi, Mariam El
Adi-Dako, Ofosua
المصدر
العدد
المجلد 2018، العدد 2018 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2018)، ص ص. 1-14، 14ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2018-05-21
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
14
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
The quality of 68 samples of 15 different essential children’s medicines sold in licensed medicine outlets in the Ashanti Region, Ghana, was evaluated.
Thirty-two (47.1%) of the medicines were imported, mainly from India (65.6%) and the United Kingdom (28.1%), while 36 (52.9%) were locally manufactured.
The quality of the medicines was assessed using content of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), pH, and microbial limit tests, and the results were compared with pharmacopoeial standards.
Twenty-six (38.2%) of the samples studied passed the official content of API test while 42 (61.8%) failed.
Forty-nine (72.1%) of the samples were compliant with official specifications for pH while 19 (27.9%) were noncompliant.
Sixty-six (97.1%) samples passed the microbial load and content test while 2 (2.9%) failed.
Eighteen (26.5%) samples passed all the three quality evaluation tests, while one (1.5%) sample (CFX1) failed all the tests.
All the amoxicillin suspensions tested passed the three evaluation tests.
All the ciprofloxacin, cotrimoxazole, flucloxacillin, artemether-lumefantrine, multivitamin, and folic acid samples failed the content of API test and are substandard.
The overall API failure rate for imported products (59.4%) was comparable to locally manufactured (63.9%) samples.
The results highlight the poor quality of the children’s medicines studied and underscore the need for regular pharmacovigilance and surveillance systems to fight this menace.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Frimpong, Grace& Ofori-Kwakye, Kwabena& Kuntworbe, Noble& Buabeng, Kwame Ohene& Osei, Yaa Asantewaa& Boakye-Gyasi, Mariam El…[et al.]. 2018. Quality Assessment of Some Essential Children’s Medicines Sold in Licensed Outlets in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Journal of Tropical Medicine،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202900
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Frimpong, Grace…[et al.]. Quality Assessment of Some Essential Children’s Medicines Sold in Licensed Outlets in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Journal of Tropical Medicine No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202900
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Frimpong, Grace& Ofori-Kwakye, Kwabena& Kuntworbe, Noble& Buabeng, Kwame Ohene& Osei, Yaa Asantewaa& Boakye-Gyasi, Mariam El…[et al.]. Quality Assessment of Some Essential Children’s Medicines Sold in Licensed Outlets in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Journal of Tropical Medicine. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1202900
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1202900
قاعدة معامل التأثير والاستشهادات المرجعية العربي "ارسيف Arcif"
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