News About: Goverment
Mr. Sung-Rak Choi, expert in food field, appointed as Vice Minister of Food and Drug Safety
Sung-Rak Choi, Welfare Support Officer at the Minister of Health and Welfare(MOHW) Social Welfare Office, has been appointed as the Vice Minister of Food and Drug Safety.
The government announced to appoint Mr. Sung-...
Minister Young-Jin Ryu, “We’ll widely promote the medication damage relief program”
Minister Young-Jin Ryu of Food and Drug Safety announced to put more efforts on promoting the medication damage relief program.
It was an answer to an item suggested by The Minjoo Party Rep. Jae-Geun In at a Q&A sess...
HIRA gave notice of health insurance benefits for Keytruda and Opdivo
The Health Insurance Review & Assurance Service(President Seung-Taek Kim, HIRA) decided a revision bill for the ‘Details of Health Insurance Benefit Application Standards and Methods for Drugs Prescribed and Used for ...
MOHW & MFDS’s work reports expelled by ‘contaminated eggs’
Questions about issues related to the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) and Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s(MFDS) work reports were dealt relatively less because of the ‘eggs contaminated with insecticide’ probl...
MOHW tentatively confirmed 3rd meeting for emergency household medicines on 29th
The 3rd meeting for the deliberative committee for designation of emergency household medicines was tentatively scheduled on the coming 29th.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) gave a notice of the tentative sc...
MOHW’s major tasks for ‘settlement of uninsured medical services and strengthening of medical publicity’
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Neung-Hoo Park, hereinafter referring to MOHW) will announce major government plans from settlement of uninsured medical services, strengthening of medical publicity and pro...
MFDS carries out ‘Stable Supply of Essential Medicines and Support for Orphan Drugs’
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(Minister Young-Jin Ryu, MFDS) will announce major government plans at a work report on the 16th, such as safe supply of essential medicines and support for orphan drugs.
When it c...
Office study for national essential medicines starts
A study officially started to seek strategies for national essential medicines and public pharmaceutical companies.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW), a briefing for the start of the national esse...
‘Financial Gain & Expenditure Report is much needed for companies providing rebates’
While the pharmaceutical industry is recently worrying about various factors, such as expense and human resource, for adopting the ‘Financial Gain & Expenditure Report’ on the 1st of January next year, the Ministry of...
Rep. Sang-Hee Kim representatively tables ‘National Explosive Medical Fee Prevention Bills’
As part of the ‘Country without Medical Fee Troubles’ plan revealed by the Jae-In Moon administration, 3 bills, also known as the so-called ‘National Explosive Medical Fee Prevention Bills,’ were tabled one after anot...
