Separation of drug dispensing from medical practice is in right track.

The implementation of a new system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice since 2000 has been well institutionalized, according to data submitted to the National Assembly by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

The data showed that the new system has been properly functioned in terms of 1) sustained reductions in abuse or misuse of antibiotics and injectionables, 2) further stren...