Hospitals and clinics must close the door for a considerable period of time after dispensing and administering narcotic drugs such as propofol.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on August 8 that it would legislate a proposed amendment to the Enforcement Regulations on Narcotics Control, which would strengthen administrative measures against violations of drug handlers.

The KFDA plans to gather opinions by September 8 and implement them after promulgation.

The amendment has strengthened administrative measures when drug handlers manufacture, import, trade, dispense or administer drugs outside of their business purposes, or report false drug handling.

Drug handlers include drug manufacturers, importers, importers, drug users, drug wholesalers, drug dealers, drug retailers, and drug researchers.

The amendment is particularly valid for six months for the first offense, 12 months for the second offense, 12 months for the third offense and 12 or more for the fourth offense, especially if the drug-handling medical practitioner does not follow the prescription and takes medication or falsely writes the prescription. I have to stop work such as months.

If you do not fill out all or part of your prescriptions or do not keep your prescriptions for 2 years, you will be suspended for 3 to 12 months after the 1st to 4th violations.

The KFDA has come up with such an amendment because the illegal spillage of drugs at medical sites is inevitable.

In May, the KFDA selected 52 hospitals and clinics that allegedly violated the law among 36,000 hospitals and clinics, and as a result of a joint audit with the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, more than half of the 27 were caught.

The KFDA has commissioned four local governments for administrative disposition.

In addition, 23 companies, including those who suspected of overdose with propofol, asked the prosecution and the police to investigate.

These hospitals and clinicians were found to have committed illegal activities, such as administering medical drugs, such as propofol, or writing false information about drugs, without a prescription or medical records.

In addition to these hospitals and clinics, the KFDA also detected 49 patients who were caught in overdose of propofol and asked for an investigation.

Patients are suspected of visiting the hospitals on the same day, taking propofol, using the name of the deceased, and prescribing forgery.

The KFDA uses the integrated drug management system, which started operation in May last year, to analyze the big data on the handling, distribution, and use of drugs from this year, and to monitor and monitor drug distribution and handlers suspected of abuse. It is operating.

The integrated drug management system is a system that reports and stores the entire process from drug production to use as a computer system.

All drug handlers must report their treatment to prevent misuse and illegal spills of drugs such as fentanyl and propofol.

The KFDA will also develop and disclose a system for checking the contents of narcotic medications for patients.