News About: Goverment
The Differential Medical Fee System to become history
As the Differential Medical Fee System, which has continuously been criticized to be abolished in the 17th, 18th and 19th National Inspections of the National Assembly, was decided to be abolished by the Health Insura...
Public announcement system is being pushed
The government has decided to adopt the public announcement system for the current state of financial affairs. The action is to increase transparency and reliability in finance. Moreover, financial statement titles, a...
54 products acquiring exclusive sales product approvals after Patent Linkage System enforcement
For a half year of the Patent Linkage System enforcement, 54 pharmaceutical products have acquired exclusive sales product approvals.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(Minister Seung-hee Kimg, MFDS) announced 54 p...
Health insurance benefit details for antismoking treatments will be announced October
Delayed not to find the middle ground, the time to enforce the health insurance of antismoking treatments is going to be decided early-October.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) announced to disclose the time ...
Flu vaccines thrown away became a topic at National Assembly again
It was indicated at the National Inspection that flu vaccines for thousands of people have been thrown away every year. Even though vaccines worth of billions of wons have been dumped on a street, the government has l...
MOHW’s 2016 budget proposal confirmed at KRW 55.6 trillion
The next year’s budget proposal of the Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) was confirmed at KRW 55.6 trillion.
According to the MOHW, the size of the total expenditure for the budget and fund operation plan of the M...
Expected large-scale lawsuits of pharmaceutical companies against KRW 200 billion drug price reduction
While the government has notified drug price reduction worth of KRW 207.7 billion from the 1st of March next year, pharmaceutical companies with large cuts have considered lawsuits against the reduction. As a number o...
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety approved 5 biosimilar products in 7 years
The National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation(NIFDS), the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(Minister Seung-hee Kim, MFDS), has approved 5 biosimilar products and 22 clinical trials of different products bet...
Taking promotion of the director of KCDC to the vice-minister level as the only measure has been criticized as the ‘Makeshift Measure’
It has been a month since the declaration of the MERS end.
The main point of the declaration was to block inflows of new infectious diseases, establish a prompt response system, quarantine institutions and a speciali...
The Ministry of Health and Welfare has begun invigorating to become one of the top international top 5 clinical trial power
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(Minister Jin-yup Jung) established and announced the ‘Reinforcement Plan for the Global Clinical Trial Competitiveness’ as a strategy to become one of the top 5 international clinica...
