News About: Pharm. Affairs
Patients complained with duplicate tests and expensive wards.
The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB) surveyed 588 consumers using the third medical institutions in big cities and reported that the most common complains included duplicate tests, unwanted expensive ward alloca...
No-smoking Movement Association called for government to legislate
The Korea No-smoking Movement Association called for the government to take part in the legislation of the international treaty over the tobacco controls.
The Association took a press meeting at Palace hotel on Feb...
Number of pharmacy in Seoul area shows the least.
Of 16 cities across the nation the number of pharmacy showed the least in Seoul area compared to the population according to the 2002 medical institution data reported by the HIRA. The data revealed that Seoul...
Top posts of 3 pharmaceutical related organizations to be changed.
The general congress of the pharmaceutical related organizations like the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA), and the Korea Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KPMA) was scheduled in February, and the top ex...
KPA to propose an incentive plan for neighbour pharmacies.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation program, most of neighbour pharmacies located in residential areas faced so serious business difficulties as to stand at an edge of their management...
1.4 pharmacists on average are working at a pharmacy.
The Health Insurance Review Agency reported through the latest statistics as of Dec. 2002 that the total number of pharmacy and pharmacist across the nation showed 18,727 and 26,904 respectively, indicating every 4 ph...
Prescriptions written in generic names with duplicate issuance.
As a part of the reform programs, the civil health related organizations suggested to the new government, stressing to say that the prescriptions should be written in generic drug names and issued its sheets in duplic...
Dr. Lee Jong-wook nominated as director-general of WHO
Dr. Lee Jong-wook was selected as director-general of the World Health Organization and it is the fist time a South Korean has headed a U.N. agency.
In the fifth round of voting in Geneva on January 28, Lee receive...
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Pharmacies depressive with ever soaring lease rates
Most of pharmacies are experiencing management difficulties with ever soaring lease rates largely due to the new commercial premise leasing act that already took effects from Jan. this year.
According to the new pr...
