(Combating New Coronary Pneumonia) 24 hours of Type B over-the-counter sales in public places in Gansu: answering "patient urgency"
Chinanews.com Lanzhou, April 3 (Ai Qinglong, Shi Jingjing) Meng Xiaodong, director of the Drug Circulation Supervision Department of the Gansu Provincial Drug Administration, said in an exclusive interview with reporters from Chinanews.com that Gansu officially supports pharmaceutical companies at airports, train stations, and shopping malls. , Supermarkets, convenience stores and other public places set up drug sales counters and vending machines to sell Class B non-prescription drugs 24 hours.
At the same time, Gansu guided pharmaceutical companies to develop new residential areas with fewer pharmacies, urban-rural junctions, and remote rural areas, to achieve effective coverage of drug distribution at the grassroots level, and to improve the safety and convenience of drug supply in rural and remote areas. Accessibility.
The picture shows the staff of Gansu Provincial Drug Supervision Bureau examining drugs. (Data map) Photo courtesy of Gansu Drug Administration
Meng Xiaodong explained that enterprises that set up drug sales counters and automatic vending machines to sell Type B over-the-counter drugs need to apply to the local city and state market regulatory authorities to specify the location, set up the experience and pass the acceptance of Type B over-the-counter drugs. The acceptance criteria are set by Specific regulations by local market regulatory authorities. At the same time, it is also necessary to strictly manage the classification and classification of pharmacies, and require the provision of pharmaceutical technicians.
In 2019, Gansu completed a total of 4,808 batches of samples of various medicines, with a pass rate of 100% for the production and distribution of essential medicines, a pass rate of 96% for the sampling of Chinese herbal medicines, and a pass rate of 98.4% for cosmetics. It also carried out supervision and inspection of pharmaceutical production, wholesale, retail enterprises and cosmetics production enterprises in the province, ordered 8 production and business suspensions, banned 26 unlicensed operations, and vigorously cracked down on "two products and one weapon" illegal crimes.
Meng Xiaodong (right), director of the Drug Circulation Supervision Department of the Gansu Provincial Drug Supervision Bureau, accepted an exclusive interview with reporters from Chinanews.com. Photo by Yang Yanmin
Meng Xiaodong believes that after the epidemic, people in Gansu went to the Internet for medical treatment, and the demand for online consultations, online electronic prescriptions, and home delivery of medicines increased sharply. It has become a practical need to launch remote pharmaceutical services during the epidemic prevention and control.
In late March, Gansu officially issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Innovation and Development of Drug Retail Enterprises and Convenient Services", which clearly supports the innovative development of pharmaceutical companies. Through remote online consultation, remote online prescription, and remote online review, the drug purchase network can be realized. Ordering store delivery "and other services to minimize the risk of infection while ensuring safe medication use.
It is understood that through the establishment of electronic medical records and the use of remote high-definition audio and video communications, Gansu will enable patients and online doctors to achieve online medical consultations, and directly enjoy a series of medical services such as condition diagnosis, prescription acquisition and online doctor's orders, to comprehensively solve the waiting for patients to see a doctor And other issues.
At the same time, Gansu allows pharmaceutical companies to use other methods such as equity participation, holding, union, reorganization, merger, joint venture, cooperation, etc. to integrate other pharmaceutical retail enterprises (including monomer drug stores) and cultivate large-scale pharmaceutical retail backbone enterprises.
"Promoting the development of pharmaceutical retail business to chain and professional development can solve the problem of shortage of licensed pharmacists in pharmaceutical retail enterprises from the source." Meng Xiaodong said that he supports drug retail chain enterprises to explore "specialized pharmacies" and establish pharmaceutical services, New specialized pharmacies with value in services such as drug distribution, special disease management, chronic disease management, and health and welfare management, provide pharmaceutical technology services for patients with chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. (Finish)