Entrance Pharmaceuticals and Research Centre, the manufacturing subsidiary of Tobinco Group of companies has locally produced hydroxychloroquine, a drug that has been endorsed by WHO as a potential antidote for the fight against the global Covid-19 pandemic.
The boss of the company, Nana Amo Tobbin I, on behalf of Entrance Entrance Pharmaceuticals and Research Centre presented 1,000 courses of Hydroxychloroquine worth over GH¢ 100,000 and 18,000 bottles of Foligrow to the Ministry of Health to support the government in the fight against COVID-19 in Ghana.
Receiving the items on behalf of the government, the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye the company for the kind and timely gesture.
He noted that for the government to succeed in the fight against COVID-19, it would need the partnership of the private sectors, such as the Tobinco Group, expressing the hope that the partnership would last.
