Sub-Decree aims to better regulate pharmacies

28 March 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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Hun Sen / Mam Bunheng / Mao Dareth / Ministry of Health / Ministry of Interior / Pharmacist Association of Cambodia / Sub-Decree of the Pharmacists’ Code of Ethics

Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree to better regulate pharmacies, a business fraught with fake drugs and fake diplomas. ... The new sub-decree of the Pharmacists’ Code of Ethics contains 71 articles. They ban distribution of fake drugs and the use of titles not related to the profession. ... Article 56 states that pharmacists who monitor other pharmacies have to be independent and “shall not be permitted to control and inspect their own business, or conjoined-businesses or of blood-related relatives.” Article 30 states the medicine should only be sold after pharmacists have familiarized themselves with the prescription and always act in the best interest of customers’ health. Drugs should be handed out to needy sick people who cannot pay for them. ... Mao Dareth, deputy director of the Pharmacist Association of Cambodia, which counts more than 600 professional members, welcomed the Pharmacists’ Code of Ethics’ new sub-decrees, saying that it drew from other countries’ experiences.

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