The Health Ministry has hinted at a possible addition of the COA Mixture to the essential drug list in health centres across the country.
According to the Deputy Minister, Mahama Asei Seini, the move will help improve universal healthcare delivery by allowing hospitals and other health facilities to prescribe the medicine to patients.
He made this known at the re-launch of the COA Mixture in Accra on Wednesday, May 25.
Mr Seini said there are “engagements ongoing at the various levels with stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of this policy which began in 1988.”
“COA Mixture is part of the medicines that have been selected. This means that COA Mixture can now be prescribed in the various health facilities across the country,” he noted.
He stated that the steps being implemented will help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 3 by 2030.
Owing to this, “the government is committed to creating an enabling environment for plant medicines to compete with orthodox medicines.”
Plant medicine
The Founder and Chief Executive (CEO) of the COA Research and Manufacturing Company, Prof Samuel Duncan, says the country stands the chance of generating not less than $32 billion from plant medicine.
He said these funds would bring some economic relief to the country when it turns out to be successful.
“This is what I want to achieve for mother Ghana as part of my Global Peace Mission Project,” Prof Duncan stated.
Meanwhile, he said the COA Mixture is not an HIV/AIDS medicine and cannot cure that disease.
“It is for healthy living; it is a 100 per cent natural product from plants and without any artificial preservatives.”
He also cautioned the general public to be wary of fake products on the market.
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