Atlantic Lifesciences Limited, a manufacturing firm in the pharmaceutical industry, is to begin the production of peritoneal dialysis devices to help address dialysis challenges confronting the country.
The company is set to begin production of the devices locally from July this year would serve as an alternative to traditional dialysis solutions currently in use across the country.
It forms part of efforts by the company to ease the financial burden of patients on dialysis since the device, which would be produced locally could be used at home without necessarily spending money to go to the hospital for treatment.
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The Quality Assurance Manager at Atlantic Lifesciences, Smart Bediako, revealed this to journalists when the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana paid a courtesy call to management of the company at Lakpleku in the Ningo-Prampram District of Accra.
The society toured the various production lines to familiarise themselves with the facility.
He said company’s aim was to bring innovative health solutions to the people of Ghana and Africa.
Mr Bediako explained that peritoneal dialysis devices were an essential solution for patients with very chronic kidney disease.
“Atlantic Lifesciences is a solution-oriented company and so, we are looking at the problems the Ghanaians are facing,” he said in recognition of the increasing kidney cases reported in the country.
With peritoneal dialysis devices, he said, kidney patients can use it in the comfort of their homes, saving them the trouble of going to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and other dialysis centres frequently.
“Our efforts to produce these devices will augment those of the Ministry of Health in trying to resolve the costs that patients incur,” Mr Bediako said.
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President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana, Dr. Samuel Kow Donkoh, described the move to produce such crucial devices domestically as welcoming.
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