Quality Assessment of Some Essential Children’s Medicines Sold in Licensed Outlets in Ashanti Region, Ghana

Table 3

Summary results of the quality of essential children’s medicines investigated based on content of API, pH, and microbial load.

Type of essential children’s medicine	Number of samples analysed	Content of API		pH		Microbial load
		Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail
Ciprofloxacin	2	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)	1 (50.0)	1 (50.0)	2 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Cotrimoxazole	5	0 (0.0)	5 (100.0)	5 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	5 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Metronidazole	6	1 (16.7)	5 (83.3)	6 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	6 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Amoxicillin	6	6 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	6 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	6 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Flucloxacillin	4	0 (0.0)	4 (100.0)	4 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	4 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Cefuroxime	6	1 (16.7)	5 (83.3)	5 (83.3)	1 (16.7)	5 (83.3)	1 (16.7)
Artemether-lumefantrine	4	0 (0.0)	4 (100.0)	1 (25.0)	3 (75.0)	4 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Mebendazole	5	1 (20.0)	4 (80.0)	4 (80.0)	1 (20.0)	4 (80.0)	1 (20.0)
Albendazole	8	6 (75.0)	2 (25.0)	4 (50.0)	4 (50.0)	8 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Griseofulvin	3	1 (33.3)	2 (66.7)	1 (33.3)	2 (66.7)	3 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Ferrous sulphate	3	3 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	2 (66.7)	1 (33.3)	3 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Multivitamin	2	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)	2 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Folic acid	2	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	2 (100.0)	2 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Paracetamol	7	3 (42.9)	4 (57.1)	6 (85.7)	1 (14.3)	7 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Ibuprofen	5	4 (80.0)	1 (20.0)	2 (40.0)	3 (60.0)	5 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Total	68	26 (38.2)	42 (61.8)	49 (72.1)	19 (27.9)	66 (97.1)	2 (2.9)

Values for pass and fail provide the number of samples in each category and the number in parenthesis is the percentage of pass or fail.