The Ministry of Health has set practical steps within the framework of the governance and control of drug dispensing, as health sources confirmed to the media that “disbursement is subject to strict control standards, and that the ministry has put in place a strict mechanism to eliminate any aspect of diversion.”
The sources revealed that “the Ministry of Health will soon start activating a mechanism that enables the citizen to know which medicines are being used on his civil number.”
She explained that «among the measures is making a sudden inventory in hospital pharmacies from time to time, reviewing some prescriptions that were dispensed and taking random samples on a bi-monthly and monthly basis, for further scrutiny, to ensure that officials in those pharmacies adhere to the rules of exchange and that there are no dispensing of unauthorized prescriptions. In conformity with the systems, regulations and laws that govern the work of the Ministry.”
The sources pointed out that “among the measures also, are activating the computerization systems of the pharmaceutical sector and the automatic linkage between hospitals and health centres on the one hand, and the management of medical warehouses on the other hand, as well as the electronic link between health facility pharmacies and treating doctors,” stressing that “in the event of any seizure of any A person who dispenses medicines to those who do not deserve it, legal measures will be taken against him directly.”
5 procedures
1 – A sudden inventory of hospital pharmacies
2- Random sampling of prescriptions
3- Activating the automatic link between hospitals, centres and warehouses
4- Enabling the citizen to know which medicines are taken on his civil number
5- Direct legal procedures against those who dispense medicines to those who are not entitled to them
