{"id":237472,"date":"2026-06-26T06:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-how-antibiotic-abuse-fuel-deaths-in-ghana-pharmacies-and-street-hawkers-aid-prescription-disaster\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:20:40","slug":"ghana-how-antibiotic-abuse-fuel-deaths-in-ghana-pharmacies-and-street-hawkers-aid-prescription-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-how-antibiotic-abuse-fuel-deaths-in-ghana-pharmacies-and-street-hawkers-aid-prescription-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: How Antibiotic Abuse Fuel Deaths in Ghana &#8211; Pharmacies and Street Hawkers Aid Prescription Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Kofi, 38, married with three children, works as a commercial minibus driver known in Ghana as &#8216;tro-tro&#8217;. He plies along the Accra-Kaneshie route in the Greater Accra region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">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&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kofi, 38, married with three children, works as a commercial minibus driver known in Ghana as &#8216;tro-tro&#8217;. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[5099,258,256,7828,41928,8601,8985,7570,4508,4509,13762,257,27816,27874,254,7714],"class_list":["post-237472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-antibiotic","tag-deaths","tag-disaster","tag-fuel","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hawkers","tag-news","tag-pharmacies","tag-prescription","tag-south-africa-today","tag-street"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}