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FDA releases list of registered products

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  • Joe Black 10 years ago

    you fail to mention Kamaclox and other products from KAMA

  • BA 10 years ago

    This article is half baked- the writer should give readers a description of the process first before going into the findings.
    All products have to be registered with the FDA when first imported and/or when they are first pr ...
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  • Shalai 10 years ago

    BA, if you had followed the tobinco saga, you would noticed that FDA does not do any scientific search into medicines. they only qualify unregistered drugs as fake whether it fresh registeration or renewal. to address your co ...
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  • Joe 10 years ago

    Pharmacist from the pharmacy board? That board is even as bad as rotten egg. A visit to our local pharmacy shops and drugs stores will awaken you to the stark reality of the men and women who operate there by dispensing drugs ...
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  • oyiwa 10 years ago

    I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I AM READING. THE FDA IS A USELESS ORGANISATION. ALL THE DRUGS LISTED HAVE BEEN ON THE SHELVES FOR A MININMUM OF 3YEARS .ARE THEY NOW COMING TO INFORM US THAT THOSE DRUGS ARE FAKE? IS IT COS OF THE PROBE ...
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  • Tetteh 10 years ago

    WHAAATTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    OPUNI IS A VERY USE-LESS AND STU-PID GUY! SO ALL THESE DRUGS ARE IN THE SYSTEM WITHOUT APPROVAL AND HE DECIDED THAT IT WAS ONLY TOBINCO THAT HE HAD TO COMPLETELY CRUSH? BECAUSE HE WONT PAY ...
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  • Araba 10 years ago

    God save us!

  • Medi 10 years ago

    Dear Hon. Minister of Health, Minister of Finance, Minister of Information and Members of Parliament of Ghana:



    I am so concern about the absence of comprehensive health Ambulances and trained Paramedics in Ghana. We ...
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  • OSIKANI 10 years ago

    So all those drugs are not registered?
    And they are being advertised loudly day in day out. We are then dead as Ghanaians. Opuni, why do you then single out TOBINCO and burn or destroy their drugs. I think it is better for y ...
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  • OKOE 10 years ago

    WHAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE TOLD IS THAT THERE IS WEAKNESS IN THE SYSTEM,. EITHER THROUGH CORRUPTION OR INCOMPETENCE. PEOPLE WILL EITHER GET SICK PERMANENTLY OR EVEN DIE DUE TO BAD MEDICINE. PEOPLE OF INTEGRITY MUST BE EMPLOY ...
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  • sad event 10 years ago

    SO WE CANNOT GET ONE PHARMACIST TO HEAD FDA ....OH N...D...C..

  • TONY 10 years ago

    What has Opuni done to all these so called fake drugs? Has he gone to burn them? Why only Tobinco? Is it a matter of pick and choose or what? In fact Opuni is a disgrace to mother Ghana.

  • BB Brown 10 years ago

    Releasing a list of registered drugs is not enough to check the abuse but the continual checks on these so called registered ones.Is not safe to only check them once and release them onto the market since the registered ones ...
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  • KOFI SEAMAN 10 years ago

    Truly,this is sad..are leaders in Ghana no more patriotic?lmagine if these listed drugs above should begin having effects on people and killing them,what would become of Ghana?

  • TK 10 years ago

    how is Opuni wrong ??? Some people have put the fake products on the market and they are the ones to blame. If the FDA man is doing his work and catching it you want to blame him and not those actualy doing the wrong.

  • TOWER 10 years ago

    why should we blame the people when we the tax payer's money is used to pay someone like OPUNI to head a regulatory body to protect ghanaian from fake drugs. what is his use if most of our drugs out there are fake. FDA should ...
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  • Medi 10 years ago

    These companies are killers. FDA and BNI arrest these company CEOs and the foreigners bringing these drugs into the country. A massive fine must be placed on them and the monies used for Ambulances.

  • ISAKA 10 years ago

    idiot, who are killers? it is FDA and their boss OPUNI who are killers. why are all these unregistered/fake drugs on the market and the FDA is doing nothing about them. is opuni waiting for all of us to die? GOD PUNISH HIM.

  • Alhaji Suleman 10 years ago

    there is somthing seriously wrong with our regulatory body - FDA. i wonder why there shoud be so many unregistered drugs on our market. i am scared to go to the hospital or visit a pharmacy shop cus i don't know what i would ...
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  • KK 10 years ago

    HOW. WHO IS KILLING WHO ? ALWAYS WANT TO BLAME THE ONE TRYING TO ENFORCE THE RULES AND SHIELD THE IMPORTERS DOING THE WRONG THING.

  • Quartey 10 years ago

    Well a journey of thousand miles starts with the first step. Ghanaians should give FDA time to do its job. We are the same people complaining about having shoddy products in our system. FDA has to start somewhere. Even in the ...
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  • na soo 10 years ago

    Quartey are you serious! who should give who what chance. call a spade a spade, FDA is simply not doing it job . if unregistered products are fake then what excuse do they have for allowing all these fake products on the mark ...
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  • Quartey 10 years ago

    Should Dr Opuni resign, would that solve the problem? FDA is an embattled organization, but at least we now have a Director with some guts to stand up to the situation. Tobinco's situation is unfortunate, but we have lots of ...
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  • ENYONAM 10 years ago

    WHERE WAS FDA WHEN PANADOL AND OTHER DRUGS WERE BEING ADVERTISED DAILY ON THE AIRWAVES? THEY HAVE BEEN SEEING IT YET DON'T COMPLAIN THEY(THE DRUGS) ARE FAKE. WHY NOW?

  • Worried MAN. 10 years ago

    So after a long period,these things were not checked and published before released to consumers. FDA, what is the guarantee that all these drugs are safe for human consumption?? Please be proactive and do more diligent work.

  • OYIWA 10 years ago

    IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF BEING PRO ACTIVE NOW. THE WHOLE BODY NEEDS A RADICAL SHAKE UP.ALL THE ABOVE LISTED DRUGS HAVE BEEN ON THE SHELVES FOR SO LONG AITH ADVERTS HERE AND THERE. DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE TO COME NOW AND GIVE OU ...
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  • KOFI 10 years ago

    I AM REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT THE DEFINATION OF FAKE DRUGS BEING GIVEN HERE. THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT REGISTERED DO NOT QUALIFIED THEM TO BE FAKE. BUT RATHER UNREGISTERED. WHAT ABOUT THE MANY ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS ,TB DRUGS ETC ...
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  • tegare 10 years ago

    opuni must rather publish what tests they do on so called registered and "unfake" medicines. i just heard opuni has suggested expiry dates on Charlie wote. . . .

  • tegare 10 years ago

    no need for anyone to be worried here. check the list includes ethyl chloride, i think thats the spray that is used to relieve acute pain esp during football matches. these sprays have been on the market all over the world fo ...
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  • Jojo 10 years ago

    Today we have all Ghanaians praising Kwasi Appiah for the good job done, but this wasn't so some few days ago. Just as we have some section of Ghanaians calling for Dr Opuni's resignation, we will be singing his praise when h ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    I cannot even talk as the fake drugs saga is ....! All Ghanaians are dead including FDA boss himself if all the above-listed drugs are fake! I think am dead already! What a shock! Mr. President, please do something about this ...
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  • tegare 10 years ago

    guys, hold your horses, registered means the company paid their dues (bribes) unregistered dues ( bribes) not paid.

  • KK 10 years ago

    The Regulator is doing its work to protect the public interest so do we commend the man or defend the importers doing the wrong thing.

  • tegare 10 years ago

    fda, fda, fda , why try to reinvent the wheel

  • Kojovi 10 years ago

    Everything in Ghana is rubbish. why should it take the FDA 100 years before starting publishing these facts. Heads would have rolled in FDA in any serious minded nation. Instead of arrest, investigation and prosecution, the c ...
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  • emmanuel frm koftown 10 years ago

    I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TAKE THE LAST DOSE OF ELERON TAB AND WHILE IN A TAXI TO OFFICE FOR NIGHT DUTY I READ THE STORY ON THE NET VIA PHONE.I WAS SADDEN AND LOST. IF THE CAUSE IS NOT CORRUPTION AND ''I DON'T CARE LEADERSHIP'' WH ...
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  • SULE 10 years ago

    This supposed list that the CEO of the FDA has caused to be published to as it were, create the situation that he's doing his job and there are some unregistered products and as a consequence of that, those products are fake ...
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