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

Table 6

Summary results of the quality of sampled essential children’s medicines based on country of manufacture.

Country of manufacture of essential children’s medicines	Number of samples analyzed	Content of API (%)		pH		Microbial load
		Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail
Ghana	36	13 (36.1)	23 (63.9)	27 (75.0)	9 (25.0)	34 (94.4)	2 (5.6)
India	21	10 (47.6)	11 (52.4)	12 (57.1)	9 (42.9)	21 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
United Kingdom	9	3 (33.3)	6 (66.7)	8 (88.9)	1 (11.1)	9 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
Belgium	1	0 (0.0)	1 (100.0)	1 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
South Africa	1	0 (0.0)	1 (100.0)	1 (100.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (100.0)	0 (0.0)