From Viet Nam News:
Around 73 per cent of doctors’ prescriptions have not been properly checked, nor have patients been properly advised on drug prices and potential side-effects, health officials said yesterday during a conference held in Ha Noi.
According to the Ministry of Health’s Examination and Treatment Management Department’s deputy director Cao Hung Thai, the main reason for the situation was a serious shortage of pharmacists nationwide.
"Technically, pharmacists are in charge of consulting and guiding patients how to use medicine effectively, safely and properly at reasonable costs. They play an important role in medical treatment," Thai said.
However, many patients still purchase drugs without professional consultations as the number of pharmacists at hospitals and health clinics remains inadequate and their professional skills are limited. ...more
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Application of pharmacy standards slackens
From VietNamNet:
Many drugstores at large hospitals have not yet applied the Good Pharmacy Practices (GPP), let alone private pharmacies, although the deadline is only one week away, said HCMC health officials.
The Ministry of Health last year introduced the GPP standard and required all drugstores at hospitals nationwide to brace for the standard before January 1 next year. The standard is aimed at helping State agencies ensure the quality of drugs, better manage drug manufacturing and distribution, protect the people’s health as well as prepare the market for foreign drug distributors who will be allowed to enter the market early next year.
Under the ministry’s requirements, all drugstores must operate in modern facilities, only sell drugs with known origin, employ qualified pharmacists and provide drug consultations. However, even in HCMC where the pharmaceutical market is more developed, the standard has not been attended to by drugstores, said Pham Khanh Phong Lan, deputy director of HCMC’s Department of Health.
She told the Daily that the GPP implementation in hospitals would fall behind the ministry’s deadline given the current progress.
“Up to this month, 52 hospital-based drugstores in HCMC have been completing procedures to apply the GPP plus about 10 district-level hospitals,” she said. Of this figure, only 30 drugstores have successfully deployed the GPP standard. ...more
Many drugstores at large hospitals have not yet applied the Good Pharmacy Practices (GPP), let alone private pharmacies, although the deadline is only one week away, said HCMC health officials.
The Ministry of Health last year introduced the GPP standard and required all drugstores at hospitals nationwide to brace for the standard before January 1 next year. The standard is aimed at helping State agencies ensure the quality of drugs, better manage drug manufacturing and distribution, protect the people’s health as well as prepare the market for foreign drug distributors who will be allowed to enter the market early next year.
Under the ministry’s requirements, all drugstores must operate in modern facilities, only sell drugs with known origin, employ qualified pharmacists and provide drug consultations. However, even in HCMC where the pharmaceutical market is more developed, the standard has not been attended to by drugstores, said Pham Khanh Phong Lan, deputy director of HCMC’s Department of Health.
She told the Daily that the GPP implementation in hospitals would fall behind the ministry’s deadline given the current progress.
“Up to this month, 52 hospital-based drugstores in HCMC have been completing procedures to apply the GPP plus about 10 district-level hospitals,” she said. Of this figure, only 30 drugstores have successfully deployed the GPP standard. ...more
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Ministry says 85 City chemists meet standards
From Viet Nam News:
Around 85 drug stores in HCM City are qualified to meet the new Good Pharmacy Practices (GPP) standard.
This follows an order from the Ministry of Health last year that requires all pharmacies to meet the GPP standard by 2011 in order to remain in operation.
The GPP standard requires pharmacy owners to have a pharmacist’s certificate and a pharmacist always on duty. It further requires that drugs clearly display their origin of manufacture and instructions for storage and use.
Out of the 85 GPP-compliant drug stores, 41 are managed by city hospitals, with the rest being privately-owned.
Recently, the HCM City Department of Health has set a target to get 100 percent of the city’s pharmacies GPP-compliant in 2009. Out of the country’s approximate 3,816 pharmacies, 70 percent are in HCM City. ...more
Around 85 drug stores in HCM City are qualified to meet the new Good Pharmacy Practices (GPP) standard.
This follows an order from the Ministry of Health last year that requires all pharmacies to meet the GPP standard by 2011 in order to remain in operation.
The GPP standard requires pharmacy owners to have a pharmacist’s certificate and a pharmacist always on duty. It further requires that drugs clearly display their origin of manufacture and instructions for storage and use.
Out of the 85 GPP-compliant drug stores, 41 are managed by city hospitals, with the rest being privately-owned.
Recently, the HCM City Department of Health has set a target to get 100 percent of the city’s pharmacies GPP-compliant in 2009. Out of the country’s approximate 3,816 pharmacies, 70 percent are in HCM City. ...more
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Pharmacies slow to adopt standards
From the Viet Nam News:
Lack of equipment and business competence could prevent the cities of Da Nang and Can Tho from setting up 30 pharmacies with Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) standards by the end of this year.
The target was set by the Ministry of Health and affects four major cities, including Ha Noi and HCM City. It is part of a new plan to make sure all pharmacies nationwide by 2012 have a pharmacist’s certificate, drugs stored at below 30 degrees Celsius, proper pricing for goods and clear labelling for medicines showing the origin and instructions for use. If a drug store does not meet these standards in the allotted time, it will be shut down.
While Ha Noi has built 45 GPP pharmacies and HCM City 21, there have been no new drug stores set up in Da Nang or Can Tho, according to a recent report by the Drug Administration of Viet Nam. ...more
Lack of equipment and business competence could prevent the cities of Da Nang and Can Tho from setting up 30 pharmacies with Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) standards by the end of this year.
The target was set by the Ministry of Health and affects four major cities, including Ha Noi and HCM City. It is part of a new plan to make sure all pharmacies nationwide by 2012 have a pharmacist’s certificate, drugs stored at below 30 degrees Celsius, proper pricing for goods and clear labelling for medicines showing the origin and instructions for use. If a drug store does not meet these standards in the allotted time, it will be shut down.
While Ha Noi has built 45 GPP pharmacies and HCM City 21, there have been no new drug stores set up in Da Nang or Can Tho, according to a recent report by the Drug Administration of Viet Nam. ...more
Sunday, April 06, 2008
City chemists go back to school to study international standards
From Viet Nam News:
About 300 pharmacies will be invited to training courses after representatives from 150 of HCM City’s major pharmacies attended the city’s first Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) programme.
The next courses – intended to help pharmacists standardise their stores – will be held in July and August.
The programme, organised by the HCM City Health Department, follows a Health Ministry announcement that all the country’s pharmaceutical chemists will have to meet GPP standards by 2011.
GPP requires pharmacy owners to have a pharmacist’s certificate, drugs to be stored at below 30 degree Celsius and medicines to show both their origin and clear instructions for their use. ...more
About 300 pharmacies will be invited to training courses after representatives from 150 of HCM City’s major pharmacies attended the city’s first Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) programme.
The next courses – intended to help pharmacists standardise their stores – will be held in July and August.
The programme, organised by the HCM City Health Department, follows a Health Ministry announcement that all the country’s pharmaceutical chemists will have to meet GPP standards by 2011.
GPP requires pharmacy owners to have a pharmacist’s certificate, drugs to be stored at below 30 degree Celsius and medicines to show both their origin and clear instructions for their use. ...more
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