The Acting Registrar of the Pharmacy Council, Dr. Daniel Amaning Dankwa, has said his outfit is working tirelessly with the security agencies to stamp out the activities of drug peddlers.
Speaking to journalists in Takoradi during a media engagement, Dr. Daniel A. Dankwa said that such drug peddles sell fake and expired drugs and medicine to unsuspecting victims.
He deemed such acts by these peddlers illegal as the medicine they offer for sale is fake, unlicensed, and unapproved by the Council.
Such drugs, according to Dr. Dankwa, pose a danger to a person’s health.
Dr. Dankwa entreated the public to avoid patronizing drugs from such persons but rather go to licensed pharmacies for their drugs.
“I have picked up that intelligence, and that is what I’m telling them, I’m working on that with the police, the BNI, and all the securities because, as you see these ‘abochi’ people, some of them are not even Ghanaians. As an individual Ghanaian, if you take the risk of going to arrest these people, they can harm you, and you don’t even have the right to do so.”
To Ghanaians, who now buy medicine from these, ‘gentlemen’ walking around claiming to be selling medicine. It’s a very dangerous practice, and that is why when licensed practitioners and facilities provide service, we license them to specific locations so that if anything happens, you can go back and say, This is where I bought the medicine.”
Medicines are not supposed to be sold by peddling, where people carry them in bags and go around. It’s not safe. It is a very risky lifestyle to buy medicine from people like that.”
We are encouraging people to desist from buying from such peddlers.”
The engagement between the New Acting Registrar, Dr. Daniel Dankwa of the Pharmacy Council, and all proprietors of pharmacy businesses and pharmacists in the Western region focused on leveraging the digitalization of processes of the pharmacy council, and the challenges facing the pharmacy business and pharmacy practice.
