FOOD AND DRUGS AUTHORITY, PHARMACY COUNCIL, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GHANA, MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN A WEB OF COMPROMISE Following information gathered from the recently ended Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSG) it came out that drugs and hospital consumables in the Ghanaian market have poor quality. Among these products are antibiotics, antimalarials, rapid diagnostic test kits, sterile products and, drugs classified as emergency drugs. These products and more do not seem to work or have gained microbial resistance . This situation is a serious contributory factor to the high rate of morbidity and mortality in the country, especially in the case of antibiotics. The most mind bugling aspect of this trend is that some of these products have found their way through the MOH procurement system into our public hospitals In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined ‘substandard’ drugs as “out of specification”, these are authorized medical produ...