News About: Goverment
Government's inspection team on medical and pharmacy separation reform to launch from Aug. 30.
In an attempt for the government medical and pharmacy reform program to set up earlier the government planned to launch a inspection team from Aug. 30.
President Kim Dae-jung held a Ministerial meeting related to t...
Standards for quality control of blood preparations to readjust.
The KFDA will review the standards for quality control of the blood and its preparations to reinforce its safety.
The KFDA intended to survey how to control the blood in overseas country including the status of pla...
26 pharmacies found illegal dispensing practices.
After launching the government's medical and pharmacy separation program, the MOHW investigated any unlawful practices at pharmacies and detected the total 26 cases of breaching provisions as of Aug. 22, including 12 ...
Medical reform plan to fix as a major government administration issue.
Entering the second half of president Kim Dae-jung's government terms, the government, led by Prime minister Lee Han-dong, decided 25 major government issues including the medical reform plan on Aug. 18 in line with t...
Illegal practices under new medical/pharmacy separation system under close check.
The KFDA plans to conduct a special inspection against any illegal practices currently prevailing in a part of medical institutes and large sized pharmacies from Aug. 21.
The KFDA notified to the city and provinci...
Free dispensing and other illegal practices to watch closely.
The MOHW. upon strong requests from the medical community, will revise Article 21, para. 4 of the pharmaceutical affairs law to the effect that pharmacists are prohibited to dispense professional (prescription) as wel...
Region on strike nominated as exceptional zone from medical reform plan.
In the press interview with Minister Choi Sun-jung on Aug. 16 regarding the current protracted strike by medical communities protesting against the government's medical reform plan, he indicated that the MOHW would ta...
26 members of Health and Medical Development Special Commission nominated.
The government announced on Aug. 17 to establish "Health and Medical Development Special Commission" headed by the prime minister and deputy commissioner as Mr. Kim Dong-jip, President of the Central Red Cross Blood B...
New head of KFDA was nominated to Mr. Yang Kyu-whan, Administrator, National Institute of Toxicologi
President Kim Dae-jung nominated Mr. Chang Suk-joon, the chief officer of Ministry of Planning and Budget as the new vice minister of MOHW and Dr. Yang Kyu-whan, the head of National Institute of Toxicological Researc...
Pharmacist to notify in writing to prescribing physicians when filling prescriptions with substituti
The subordinated provisions of the pharmaceutical affairs law seemed to be revised to the effect that the pharmacist should notify in writing to the prescribing physician when he filled the prescription with substitut...
