Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs: Open Access

Head, Tobacco and Substances of Abuse Department Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), PO Box CT 2783, Cantonments Accra, Ghana

Publications

• 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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