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Medical community and civic group conflicted on separation plan.
A disharmony between the medical community and the civic group on the medical and pharmacy separation plan attracted keen attention to the government and the public.
Recently the Korea Medical Association put a pub...
Shut-down of hospital pharmacy for outpatients carefully reviewed.
The consolidated file reported by the Policy Evaluation Commission of the Cabinet Coordination Office over the government performance appraisal during the first half of this year suggested for the 3 big reform project...
Massive dumping in NMC and National Police hospital bidding.
It was disclosed that massive dumping price bidding was spreaded in national and public general hospitals such as the National Police hospital, Inchon Red Cross hospital and National Medical Center, for which the indu...
Purchasing contract by Boramae hospital at dumping prices rumoured.
Amid impending massive price slash by the government on overall insurance drugs the pharmaceutical industry decided that any dumping bidding attempted by Boramae hospital should be definitely blockaded by all means in...
Dispensing rooms for outpatients at hospitals to be shut down.
The government plans to shut down the dispensing pharmacy for outpatients annexed to the medical institutes over the hospital level effective from July 1 by accepting the civic group's recommendation despite repulsive...
Leading hospitals dealing with 8.6 drug wholesalers on average.
It was found that 18 leading private hospitals located in Seoul and the metropolitan area were dealing with about 9 drug wholesalers on average.
Yakup Press surveyed against 18 private leading hospitals who were...
Extremely low priced bidding by Kyungsang Univ. hospital to stir up big troubles.
A unique national university hospital located in the West Kyungnam Province area, Kyungsang Univ. hospital, invited a public tender on April 19 for purchasing of 671 items of drugs in the estimated value of 14,423 mil...
Drug purchasing at local health centers had no fair trading orders.
A massive drug price dumping took place at local medical institutes and health centers in Pusan, Kyungnam and Chunnam provinces from Jan. to March this year, giving worries to drug wholesalers and makers that such pri...
SNU hospital accepted 65 new drugs for entry of hospital formulary.
SNU hospital invited a public tender for purchasing 65 new drugs on Feb. 20 including Cobamide (1mg/2ml) and other 32 local new products and Andyplus (German Fresenius) and other 31 imported new drugs, of which 44 it...
Patient crowd to hospitals problemed after medical/pharmacy separation.
A research study paper disclosed recently that the medical and pharmacy separation system may cause an increase of insurance financing, which eventually give an impact to the people with additional burdens.
The follo...
