Ghana: How Antibiotic Abuse Fuel Deaths in Ghana – Pharmacies and Street Hawkers Aid Prescription Disaster

Kofi, 38, married with three children, works as a commercial minibus driver known in Ghana as ‘tro-tro’. He plies along the Accra-Kaneshie route in the Greater Accra region.

One morning he woke up complaining of fever, chills, and general body weakness. When he consulted a physician at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, the doctor who saw him observed a bloodstream infection and prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics, the initial treatments given to patients with suspected severe…