Informal Pharmacies Continue To Operate Despite Crackdown

… There are no reliable figures on the number of illegal pharmacies operating nationwide, but the government insists that the problem is a thing of the past. At the launch of an anti-drug campaign at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh on Monday, Chou Yin Sim, secretary of state at the Ministry of Health, said there were no illegal pharmacies or health clinics currently doing business in the country. … According to a report released last year by the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Eliminating Counterfeit Drugs and Illegal Health Care Services, the number of illegal pharmacies fell from more than 1,000 in 2009 to only 10 in 2011. …