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Implementation of KGSP postponed one more year.
So far the government gave about 5 year probation period for establishment of the KGSP to drug wholesalers. However, the Korea Pharmaceutical Wholesale Association called for another 2 year extension of the probation ...
Government replaces high official positions with special appointment.
The Central Personnel Management Council (CPMC) announced the replacement range of government high official positions with special appointments from the sources outside the government internal offices on Nov. 15, and ...
Formation and operation of the regional separation cooperative council urgently needed.
By the end of coming December the regional separation cooperative council (City, Kun and Ku) shall be established at 243 public health centers across the nation, playing as a key role in performing the medical and pha...
KFDA notified revaluation results of 307 products to producers.
The KFDA has completed the drug revaluation program for 307 products of 65 companies and notified the results to them including the use records by each product and other matters to be complemented.
The KFDA assigne...
Revised bill of medical/pharmacy separation related law presented to National Assembly.
The revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs law containing the medical and pharmacy separation system was finally presented to the National Assembly on Nov. 12 for debate.
Accordingly, the Health and Welfare Com...
MOHW announced to launch actual purchasing price reimbursement system.
The MOHW announced to launch so called "Actual purchasing price reimbursement system" on Nov. 11 with objectives of eliminating any drug margins at the medical institutes, preventing people from a drug overuse, induc...
Bar code system applicable to all drugs.
Effective from April next year all packages or containers of pharmaceutical products domestically manufactured or imported from abroad except herbal drugs should show bar codes. The MOHW announced to draft "A bill for...
Enforcement Headquarter for Medical/Pharmacy Separation on action
The MOHW formed the Medical and Pharmacy Separation Enforcement Headquarter (MPSEH) with 21 representatives from the related government offices and organizations for the purpose of implementing the medical and pharmac...
Drug export to overseas markets on full efforts.
The drug export business community attended to the world exhibition for pharmaceutical raw material (CPHl '99 World Wide) held at Frankfurt in Germany from Nov. 2 to 4 and took it a good momentum for pushing their str...
Revised criteria on drug revaluation announced to be legislated
The KFDA announced to legislate "Revised bill for drug revaluation standard" on Nov. 12 for the purpose of supplementing problems and shortcomings as resulted from revaluation and examination of the product on subject...
