Medical and pharmacy separation system to be reviewed after 6 months of its implementation.

Reviewing 8 proposed issues of the medical community including their separation model project, the MOHW responded that the out-results of the medical and pharmacy separation system would be reassessed after 6 months from its implementation.

The MOHW viewed that the sales ratio of prescription and non-prescription drugs in 1998 was 60 to 40. The total sales volume of non-prescription drugs wa...