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

Table 4

Summary results of the quality of locally manufactured and foreign (imported) essential children’s medicines investigated.

Source of essential children’s medicines	Number of samples analyzed	Content of API (%)		pH		Microbial load
		Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail
Locally manufactured	36	13 (36.1)	23 (63.9)	27 (75.0)	9 (25.0)	34 (94.4)	2 (5.6)
Foreign-produced	32	13 (40.6)	19 (59.4)	22 (68.8)	10 (31.2)	32 (100.0)	0 (0.0)

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