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Neighbour town pharmacists to put lawsuit against KPA head.

Pharmacists who are operating neighbour town drug stores intended to prosecute the president of KPA in charge of their dereliction of duty. Mr. Kwon Tae-jung, the chief of the Survival Movement Headquarter for Neig...

KPA to determine final approval for agreed issues with medical communities.

The KPA plans to finalize the current medical reform issues before the end of this week, most of which were agreed with the medical delegates during the 3 way talks. However, it seems to be not easy for them to mak...

Hospital pharmacy downsized under medical reform program.

The 20th Conference of the Korea Society of Hospital Pharmacist was held from Nov. 11 to 12 at Mooju Resort, Chunbuk Province, and a survey disclosed a lot of hospital pharmacist manpower layoff at most of hospitals a...

Unfair rebates to cut off by prescribing in generic name.

In the 2nd tripartite meeting on Nov. 1 the pharmacist association claimed that any unfair and illegal rebates prevailed between medical institutes and drug manufacturers can be blocked by prescribing medications in g...

Growing number of pharmacy not to sell OTCs.

After the government's medical and pharmacy role separation system launched, most pharmacies located near big hospitals have not sold any general (non-prescription) drugs, which is very unusual. Most of them spent so ...

KPA urged government not to discuss revision to pharmaceutical affairs law with medical community.

The KPA, a pharmacist lobbying organization, clearly stated on Oct. 20 that they would never accept any attempt of revising the pharmaceutical affairs law containing many contradicted issues to their interests includi...

Pharmacists on rage against negotiation on medical reform plan.

In the retail pharmacy community a voice of rage sounded loudly against the negotiation on the medical and pharmacy reform plan currently proceeded by the government and the medical community after excluding the pharm...

KPA to move disobedience campaign against current law revision.

The KPA announced in the Struggle Committee for Pharmacist Job Security on Sept. 30 that all member pharmacists would dispense medication without prescriptions if the medical community walk out from Oct. 6 as they dec...

80% of pharmacy bills for dispensing and medication fees to be returned.

After implementation of the government medical and pharmacy role separation system, the National Health Insurance Evaluation Board declined to pay but return about 80% of the dispensing and medication bills for reimbu...

Drug industry's financial problems blamed to poor government policies.

After implementation of the government's medical and pharmacy role separation program the drug industry faced serious cash flow problems. 68.5% Netizens communicated through www.yakup. com blamed the main causes of pr...

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