News About: Goverment
Minister Rhyu said MOHW for people's health and welfare.Minister Rhyu who has been one month since his new ministerial post inauguration expressed his feeling in the press interview, saying "I will do the best what the MOHW should do...
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KFDA intensively to inspect 172 drug companies in 1st half of 2006.
The KFDA announced to inspect 172 middle and low ranks of drug manufacturers for their facilities and quality control performances during the first half of this year.
The inspection will purport to induce them thro...
U.S. pressure of reference drug pricing system senseless.
The MOHW made it clear on some earlier press reports that the participation of a U. S. embassy official to the MOHW's drug working group's meeting and the issue on the implementation holding of the reference drug pric...
Civic groups concerned drug price hike on FTA.
Many civic groups including the Korea Federation of Medical Groups for Health Rights (KFHR) criticized the FTA agreement between Korea and the United States (Kor/Am AFT), claiming concerns about which the treaty might...
National health examination quality to be upgraded.
Rep. Kang Ki-jeong of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee said on March 9 that he raised the partial revised bill of "National Health Insurance Act" to reflect for the quality of the national health exa...
Medical welfare facilities for the aged rose 52.6% in 2005.
Number of the welfare facilities for the elderly people in 2005 increased 52.6% over the previous year according to the MOHW report of "2005 status of welfare facility for the aged"
The report described 56,518 wel...
Human placenta under DMF controls from July.
The crude human placenta for the use of drugs was classified as a bulk drug subjected to the DMF controls starting from July 1, which therefore causes for any human placenta drugs to fall under the KFDA's examination ...
NCC to open hospital school for child cancer patients.
The National Cancer Center took an opening ceremony for "National Cancer Center Hospital School named -Bright Class-" at 11 a.m. on March 3 for the pediatric cancer patients who are hospitalized and therefore unable t...
HIRA to refund 1,480 million won on over charges.
The Health Insurance Review Agency identified and refunded about 1,481 billion won of over charges paid by the patients in 2005 according to Article 43-2 of the NHI Act.
Article 43-2 of the NHI Act describes a sys...
KFDA started ambitiously in 1998 but discolored later.
The liquidation of KFDA having been surfaced almost certain, the public administration society and the pharmaceutical communities expressed a harsh backlash against the discolored principle of the KFDA foundation.
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