Assessment of the Availability and Accuracy of Dosing Devices Packaged with Oral Liquid Medications in the Ho Municipality of Ghana

Table 1

Categories of oral liquid medicines studied.

Products	Number of products (%)
	Total	Country of origin		Dosing device
		Local	Foreign	Available	Not available
Analgesic	35 (9.6)	28 (80)	7 (20)	28 (80)	7 (20)
Antacid	24 (6.6)	9 (37.5)	15 (62.5)	15 (62.5)	9 (37.5)
Antihistamine	10 (2.7)	3 (30)	7 (70)	10 (100)	0 (0)
Anti-infective	68 (18.6)	45 (66.2)	23 (33.8)	50 (73.5)	18 (26.5)
Antitussive	78 (21.4)	38 (48.7)	40 (51.3)	69 (88.5)	9 (11.5)
Haematinic	52 (14.2)	23 (44.2)	29 (55.8)	44 (84.6)	8 (15.4)
Vitamins and minerals	56 (15.3)	20 (35.7)	36 (64.3)	49 (87.3)	7 (12.5)
Others	42 (11.5)	17 (40.5)	25 (59.5)	22 (52.4)	20 (47.6)

(%) for “Total” represents a percentage of the total number of products studied. (%) for country of origin and availability of dosing device represent a percentage of the total of each individual product category.