{"id":38630,"date":"2018-12-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-bans-two-types-of-fake-drugs\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:36:26","slug":"rwanda-bans-two-types-of-fake-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-bans-two-types-of-fake-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda bans two types of fake drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drugs entered the country between 2017 and June 2018 from India and China.<\/p>\n<p>According to FDA\u2019s statement, the decision was taken after a joint investigation by FDA, University of Rwanda (UR) and T\u00fcbingen University from Germany indicated that the drugs were substandard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FDA is asking all those who prescribe the drugs to stop and enforce the ban. All hospitals, health centers, clinics, and pharmacies are asked to stop prescribing the suspicious drugs until the investigation is over,&#8221; says a statement from FDA acting director, Charles Karangwa. &#8220;We stopped distributing and using the drugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Christophe Bazivamo, the EAC Deputy Secretary General, &#8220;about 70% of medicines used in Africa are manufactured in countries where there is no proper monitoring system.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has banned both Misoprostol and Oxytocin, two types of drugs used to prevent postpartum hemorrhage after establishing that they are substandard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38630"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38630"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}