A two-man delegation from the Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority are in Ghana to draw lessons from the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to strengthen their regulatory practices.
The scope of their benchmarking would cover the regulatory processes with emphasis on registration, market surveillance, inspections, licencing, vigilance, clinical trial oversight and laboratory testing functions.
The team, which will be in Ghana from June 3 to 7, seeks to leverage on the best practices in regulation for which Ghana’s FDA has distinguished itself in on the African continent.
It will also have the opportunity to understand the legal framework underpinning the Ghana’s FDA activities and how it manages its human resource to achieve its objectives.
Ghana’s FDA has a rich regulatory experience and expertise garnered over the past 21 years. It has ISO 9001:2015 certification and its laboratory is ISO/IEC17025:2017 certified.
Again Ghana’s FDA is a WHO-GPPQCL/Good Practices for Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratory certified.
The benchmark will be conducted in two phases with two different teams; the first team is made up of the Director-General of the Rwanda FDA, Dr. Charles Karangwa, who is also the head of delegation and the Divisional Manager of Quality Control of the Rwanda FDA.
The second phase and team would comprise of other Key Regulatory Officers of the Rwanda FDA as well as some members of their Governing Board.
Chief Executive of FDA, Delese A. A. Darko, said it was an honour that Ghana’s FDA was chosen among other regulatory agencies within the sub-region as their benchmark.
She pledged his organisation’s technical support to the Rwanda FDA in respect of regulation and any other area they would need the FDA’s assistance.
Mrs. Darko said FDA is always opened for future collaboration.
Head of the Rwandan team, Dr. Charles Karangwa, admitted Rwanda’s FDA is a young regulator, established in February 2018, which was strengthening its systems and procedures.
It is in line with this, he said, they thought it expedient to understudy the regulatory practices of the Ghana FDA.
He expressed gratitude to the Ghana FDA for hosting them, noting they were highly impressed with Ghana’s regulatory framework on the whole.
Ghana’s FDA in the past has hosted several regulatory authorities including those from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Cote d’Ivoire.
According to the FDA, it is looking forward to hosting other regulatory agencies within the sub-region and internationally, as well as participating in many more of such collaboration to enhance regulation globally.
By 3news.com|Ghana
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