The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has hinted of moves to prosecute radio stations in the country that do request for certificates that show that products are certified before they are aired on their networks.
The FDA has expressed worry that their effort in fighting unwholesome products in the country is being hampered by some radio stations in the country. Radio stations that do not comply with the directive of the FDA before they advertise products would be prosecuted.
Head of Medical Devices at the Food and Drugs Authority, Joseph Yaw Bernie Bennie disclosed this in Sunyani during a national training on Medical Devices Regulation in Ghana.
“What is required of the radio stations is that they should request for the approval letter and certificate of the product before they advertise the products. We have educated the radio stations on this but they are not abiding so when we send them to court and they are put in the cooler for six months and they return they would not behave that way again," Mr Bennie advised.
The workshop was attended by laboratory technicians, importers of medical devices, supply chain managers, procurement officers in the public and private sector, diagnostic centres, representatives from hospitals and the media in the Brong Ahafo Region.
Mr Bennie also called on supply chain managers in various health institutions and facilities that use medical devices to crosscheck from the Food and Drugs Authority before they contract companies to supply them with medical devices in order to reduce substandard medical devices in the country.
He noted that if they are able to do this, the product quality is assured. This, he said, would go a long way to help the companies supply the products on time.
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