Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana angry with BNI

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Ben 12 years ago

I agreed the pharmacist was wrong in selling blacklisted drugs to patients but I though the Police CID could have handled the investigations

I agreed the pharmacist was wrong in selling blacklisted drugs to patients but I though the Police CID could have handled the investigations
Papa Yaw 12 years ago

How

How
Dog Eater 12 years ago

We should allow our state institutions to function, the B.N.I has not erred they have the prerogative to investigate any institution including individuals whose output is frown upon by law of the country.

We should allow our state institutions to function, the B.N.I has not erred they have the prerogative to investigate any institution including individuals whose output is frown upon by law of the country.
Kwame 12 years ago

Ghana Pharmaceutical Society is corrupt. Pharmacists are to administer drugs and security services investigate crime. The pharmacists said themselves that the drug was banned by the Foods and Drugs Board so why should they a ...
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Ghana Pharmaceutical Society is corrupt. Pharmacists are to administer drugs and security services investigate crime. The pharmacists said themselves that the drug was banned by the Foods and Drugs Board so why should they allow their members to sell it. GHS is interfering with justice and must be charged accordingly, for abiding and conniving to commit crime and committing crime.
Man 12 years ago

This pharmacy is more than madder by selling fake drags to the poor children. I think the Pharmaceutical Society should have know better.

This pharmacy is more than madder by selling fake drags to the poor children. I think the Pharmaceutical Society should have know better.
oso klottey 12 years ago

he war wage on curruption will be Very Tough,is not fully started but they are already complaining,first the Customs,now The Pharmaceutical Association,it seen the Ghanaian society have accepted and recognised CORRUPTION

he war wage on curruption will be Very Tough,is not fully started but they are already complaining,first the Customs,now The Pharmaceutical Association,it seen the Ghanaian society have accepted and recognised CORRUPTION
Kofie Charlie 12 years ago

Again the evidence of moral decadence in our Ghanaian society. Anytime an attempt is made to adhere and apply the law, there are those who rally round and close ranks to sabotage actions to protect the citizens and to prevent ...
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Again the evidence of moral decadence in our Ghanaian society. Anytime an attempt is made to adhere and apply the law, there are those who rally round and close ranks to sabotage actions to protect the citizens and to prevent crime and other serious offences. Till now the Pharmaceutical Society has not come out to state exactly what they are objecting to. they are only shouting that they are angry with the way Mr Agyeman Badu was arrested. As intelligent as I thought they would be, one would have expected them to give clear reasons for their disagreement with anger with BNI. Yes, we know that many of these firms and their accomplices indeed sell fake, expired and dangerously un-prescribed medication in the market and in our societies/communities. Some of our pharmacist are greedy, killers and destroyers of our health promotion/prevention in Ghana. They are part of the finger pointing and 'blame him/them', being it the government or someone else but not themselves mentality group of professionals in Ghana. We want to hear your disagreement, Ghana Pharmaceutical Society. Be more responsible.
Asem!!!!!!!!!!! 12 years ago

What business do they have selling illegal drugs to the innocent public,especially if they knew they were blacklisted.How did they pass through the system into the market place.They need to arrest more people not just that on ...
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What business do they have selling illegal drugs to the innocent public,especially if they knew they were blacklisted.How did they pass through the system into the market place.They need to arrest more people not just that one guy.Criminals
kwasi 12 years ago

IF YOU HARRAS GHANA FALKS YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE WATCH YOURSELFS YOU ARE NO GODS

IF YOU HARRAS GHANA FALKS YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE WATCH YOURSELFS YOU ARE NO GODS
Kwame 12 years ago

Kwesi so pharmacists have no accounts to render, thus they have the right to murder people with fake drugs and go free because they are pharmacists. What these pharmacists are doing amount to subverting the state and the secu ...
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Kwesi so pharmacists have no accounts to render, thus they have the right to murder people with fake drugs and go free because they are pharmacists. What these pharmacists are doing amount to subverting the state and the security services which have the duty to protect citizens from criminals. Selling fake drugs is a criminal act and is equal to selling poison to kill people. A person who sells poison commits crime, first of all an attempt to murder, and if a person dies as a result of the poison murder.

Kofi 12 years ago

You know how long the law(if what we have in Ghana can be called the law) allows a person to be detained without charge?

You know how long the law(if what we have in Ghana can be called the law) allows a person to be detained without charge?
Ghanabiya 12 years ago

Why should a pharmacist, who is suppose to know better and work for the welfare of the people violate the law? If the drugs are blacklisted, what does that tell him?

Why should a pharmacist, who is suppose to know better and work for the welfare of the people violate the law? If the drugs are blacklisted, what does that tell him?
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

A teenager girl invited her new boyfriend over for dinner and suggested that they could make love afterwards. On his way over, the boy stopped at the pharmacy and asked for advice in selecting a condom. When he sat down at he ...
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A teenager girl invited her new boyfriend over for dinner and suggested that they could make love afterwards. On his way over, the boy stopped at the pharmacy and asked for advice in selecting a condom. When he sat down at her parents dinner table, he bowed his head deeply in prayer. After several minutes, the girl interrupted, "You've been praying a long time. I didn't know that you were so religious." Without looking up, the boy said, "I'm not praying. I just didn't know that your father was a pharmacist."
James 12 years ago

Fake drugs can wipe out a whole population.That idiotic President James Ohemeng Kyei needs to be arrested too.This guy needs to be beaten very well.I wish I were in Ghana.

Fake drugs can wipe out a whole population.That idiotic President James Ohemeng Kyei needs to be arrested too.This guy needs to be beaten very well.I wish I were in Ghana.
Dessy 12 years ago

I don't know how people in Ghana confused themselves conflict themselves with breaking of the law and vrs the right of the law breaker..if you break the law,it got nothing to do with the right you had to break the lawit is t ...
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I don't know how people in Ghana confused themselves conflict themselves with breaking of the law and vrs the right of the law breaker..if you break the law,it got nothing to do with the right you had to break the lawit is too separate think..you have right to defend yourself of the reason why you broke the law after you arresting and put in the confinement but you don't have the right to resist your confin
ement because you have broke the law..if you have been denied the right to defend yourself after you were confined,then your right had been infringed..so there is to different scenario..The citizenly should allow the law enforcement to do their job because they are abide and working by the law set within the country by our great gradfathers to govern the country
KKA 12 years ago

PMI Statement on Theft and Illegal Diversion of Malaria Medicines

The U.S. Government strongly condemns the theft and illegal diversion of medicines that are intended to cure malaria in the most vulnerable populations in S ...
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PMI Statement on Theft and Illegal Diversion of Malaria Medicines

The U.S. Government strongly condemns the theft and illegal diversion of medicines that are intended to cure malaria in the most vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa – pregnant women and children under-five years old, reported in Thieves Hijacking Malaria Drugs in Africa, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), November 11, 2013. This is not the first report of theft or illegal diversion.

In 2010, the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)-funded ACTs intended for use in public sector clinics in several East African countries were found being sold in informal pharmacies and medicine vendors in West African countries. Further reports have been received since then, documenting additional instances of theft involving drugs and other malaria commodities financed by PMI, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in several African countries.

Illegal diversion occurs when a genuine pharmaceutical product is approved and intended for use in one country, but is then illegally intercepted and sold in another country. Diversion is not a malaria problem alone but impacts disease treatments in many different countries and high value product markets.

There have been no reported thefts of PMI-financed commodities from the point of manufacture while in transit to the country. As documented by the WSJ article, evidence suggests that antimalarial medicine theft occurred outside direct U.S. Government control, within recipient country systems.

If there is repeated evidence of theft, corruption or fraud, PMI has taken the step in several countries of withdrawing PMI-funded commodities from national government controlled supply systems and channeling them through a non-governmental parallel system. At the same time, PMI works to strengthen national supply chain management systems and safeguards so that malaria commodities can be returned to the national system as soon as possible. PMI has a comprehensive strategy to address the issue.

The U.S. Government has taken programmatic and diplomatic steps to identify and combat theft and misappropriation of medicines procured with U.S. Government funding and has referred information to the USAID Office of the Inspector General and other law enforcement officials.

We continue to work with recipient country stakeholders at all levels to improve the accountability, transparency and performance of supply chains to ensure that the integrity of our programs is maintained and the intended beneficiaries are served. This includes national governments, medical stores and local institutions to strengthen oversight to ensure the safe delivery of drugs and other malaria commodities to the end user.

We are making use of all available diplomatic, public health, and law enforcement channels to counter the theft and illegal diversion of malaria drugs.

Rear Adm Tim Ziemer

Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer
U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator
Yaw Kusi 12 years ago

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana must know that their member has committed not only murder, but Multiple Murder. Do we know how many people will be suffering slow death by the criminal and wicked action of this pharmacist. ...
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The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana must know that their member has committed not only murder, but Multiple Murder. Do we know how many people will be suffering slow death by the criminal and wicked action of this pharmacist. You think you guys are the elite of society, and can therefore do anything with impunity, and get away with it. What Ghanaians need to know is that the BNI as an Institution has in their fold professionals at various levels. They must be encouraged to do their job in the interest of the nation.
Fernando Sancho 12 years ago

PSG,is the sale of expired drugs not akin to murder? You hypocrates!!!

PSG,is the sale of expired drugs not akin to murder? You hypocrates!!!
BOBO 12 years ago

FOOLS. DO U KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HE MIGHT HAVE KILLED WITH THOSE DRUGS.

FOOLS. DO U KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HE MIGHT HAVE KILLED WITH THOSE DRUGS.

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