The Ministry of Health proposes to strengthen the management of selling drugs to treat Covid-19 on social networks

The Ministry of Health, on March 17, sent a telegram to the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities about continuing to inspect, examine and strengthen the management of health care. medicine to treat Covid-19.

According to the Ministry of Health, due to the complicated development of the Covid-19 epidemic and the increased demand for drugs to treat Covid-19 (antiviral drugs such as Molnupiravir, supportive drugs for the treatment of Covid-19), the risks of . That is speculation, hoarding or taking advantage of the epidemic to increase the selling price of drugs, sell drugs in contravention of regulations, or advertise drugs on social networks.

On March 1, the Ministry of Health issued a dispatch to the People’s Committees of provinces and cities on strengthening management measures for the purchase, sale and use of drugs to treat Covid-19.

In this latest dispatch, the Ministry continues to request the People’s Committees of provinces and cities to direct the Department of Health to assume the prime responsibility for coordinating with relevant agencies to strengthen propaganda, dissemination and training on legal regulations and guidelines. about buying, selling and using drugs to treat Covid-19. Take samples for testing to check the quality of drugs, strengthen inspection and inspect the buying and selling of drugs to treat Covid-19 at pharmaceutical business establishments.

People’s Committees of provinces and cities direct functional agencies such as Steering Committee 389, market management, provincial and municipal police and other functional agencies to strengthen inspection and examination of activities in order to detect and prevent acts of smuggling, commercial fraud, counterfeit goods in the production and trading of Covid-19 treatment drugs, activities of buying and selling Covid-19 treatment drugs at business points that are not licensed according to regulations or above. social networking platforms and other online platforms, activities of buying and selling drugs of unknown origin.

The People’s Committees of the provinces and cities direct the pharmaceutical business establishments to list prices and sell them according to the listed drug prices, to declare and fully instruct people on the use of drugs according to instructions; fully comply with the requirements of good drug practice in pharmaceutical business and other regulations in pharmaceutical business.

The Ministry of Health requested the People’s Committees of provinces and cities to urgently direct the implementation, organize inspection and examination to early detect violating organizations and individuals and strictly handle violations.

Before that, as VietNamNet reflected, the situation of selling drugs to treat Covid-19 was rampant on social networks. Specifically, to buy Molnupiravir at drug stores, people must present a certificate of F0, a prescription, and sign a commitment. And online, the same medicine box, F0 is served at home.

The reason is that when buying at pharmacies, people do not meet the requirements such as having a certificate of F0 and a prescription signed by a doctor. While it only takes a phone call or text message, F0 can buy this drug easily from social networks at different prices and special “no need to buy any documents”.

Ngoc Trang