Chief Executive Officer Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), PO Box CT 2783, Cantonments Accra, Ghana
Brief Report
Regulatory Response to Pandemics in a Developing Country - The Case of COVID-19 and the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority
Author(s): Delese Afia Amoakoa Darko and Olivia Agyekumwaa Boateng*
The emergence of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has demonstrated the challenge of a single infection to health systems across the globe.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11th March 2020, pointing at the time to the over 118,000 cases
of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread. Congruent to this declaration
by the WHO, countries were expected to accelerate their individual efforts amidst striking the right balance between protecting healths and
preventing economic or social disruption. In response to the pandemic, regulatory authorities of food and drugs in various countries are also
recognizing the new demands and obligations that the pandemic has brought and taking measures to meet them and provide the much-needed
support. The Ghana Food an.. Read More»
DOI:
10.37421/2167-7689.2021.10.235
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