Rwanda Understudies Ghana Pharma Sector
Rwanda has chosen to understudy the country’s pharmacy sector as part of efforts to improve the sector in that country. As a result, the Permanent Secretary and Registrar of the Rwanda Pharmacy Council, Dr Jean Damascene, was in the country to confer with key stakeholder agencies, particularly, the Pharmacy Council to acquaint himself with its […]
Pharmacy Council Rolls Out National E-Pharmacy Platform
The registrar of the Pharmacy Council, Dr. Audu Rauf, speaking at the stakeholder forum, asked for the support of the Private Health Insurance companies in improving patient access to pharmaceutical services and in utilizing the National Electronic Pharmacy Platform (NePP) to make life easier for the patrons when it comes to purchase of medicine access across the country.
Cash and Carry; No more supply of pharmaceutical products on credit – GNCOP
The major players in the pharmaceutical industry in Ghana have resolved to stop the supply of drugs and medications to all health facilities across the country on credit basis.
Ghana: A U.S.$50 Million Pharmaceutical Plant to Be Established in Akwamu
Pharmaceutical Plant: Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon, Dr Michael K. Obeng has reached an agreement with Sushen Medicamentos Private Limited to build a world-class pharmaceutical plant at Akwamu in the Eastern Region. Sushen Medicamentos Private Limited is a global organisation of end-to-end pharmaceutical services with all-embracing experience in pharma projects, management and development of high-quality pharmaceutical […]
Pheno and UCB reveal neurodegenerative disease programme agreement
Neurodegenerative Disease: Global preclinical programme has the potential for disease modifying therapeutics. Pheno Therapeutics (Pheno)– a company focused on the development of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of neurological diseases – has announced that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide licence agreement with UCB. It involves a preclinical small molecule programme designed to […]
Artificial pancreas technology set to change lives
Emerging technology could help patients who are unable to manage their type 1 diabetes. Individuals who are typically unable to manage their type 1 diabetes will be offered new technology to help them control their condition. Furthermore, the assistance is delivered with little human input. An independent National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) […]
Pharm. Kofi Addo-Agyekum Wins Promising Entrepreneur of the year at Ghana Pharma Awards 2021
Pharm. Kofi Addo-Agyekum Wins Promising Entrepreneur of the year at Ghana Pharma Awards 2021. BEFORE THE AWARDS The Pharmaceutical Association of Ghana (PMAG) has formed a consortium ready to take advantage of the nation’s effort geared at producing COVID-19 vaccines locally. According to the association, the consortium, made up of local pharmaceutical companies with knowledge […]
AstraZeneca’s Tezspire receives approval for asthma treatment
Green light for new asthma pen which offers self-administration option across the EU. AstraZeneca’s (AZ) Tezspire has received a positive opinion from the European Medicine Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). It concerns a self-administration treatment in the form of a pre-filled, single-use pen for patients aged 12 years and older with […]