Body enhancement medications can kill — FDA

The Head of the Drug Enforcement Department at the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Thomas Amedzro, has cautioned the public against patronising body enhancement medications that are currently on sale at various markets.

Some of these medications are packaged with elaborate sexually explicit pictures and are touted  to enhance sexual performance, increase hips  and breast sizes of women, flatten tummies or cure sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Mr Amedzro issued this warning when he interacted with The Mirror in Accra over the proliferation of these enhancement medications on the market.

He said these drugs which ranged from syrups, creams and bore names such as bozcaada or hip-ups were dangerous to health. He added that they were unregistered and could have serious health repercussions including death for its users.

“These drugs are smuggled into the country and can affect your internal organs such as the kidney, the liver and the heart which ma