You don’t need to register for consultation, and you can buy hospital-specific preparations for running errands and postage——
Why does the hospital's self-pharmaceutical become a "star drug" sold online by purchasing agent?
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On social platforms, many netizens left messages asking about the price of hospital preparations, the effect of use, and whether it is possible to prescribe and purchase medicines online.
Professionals said that the production of preparations in medical institutions is based on the principle of patients' clinical drug needs, with good curative effect and high safety, but the essence of preparations is drugs, not commodities, and cannot be sold on the market according to the law.
"The climate is dry in autumn and winter, and children have weak immunity and are prone to various diseases, so they often go online to pay attention to popular science articles on children's regular medicines." Ms. Xu from Changping District, Beijing, said that such articles include some common medicines in pharmacies, and there will also be Many hospitals self-pharmaceutical, that is, hospital preparations, and some even claim to have a certain hospital preparation purchase channel.
During the interview, the reporter of "Worker's Daily" learned that on social platforms, under the shared content of the hospital preparations, many netizens left messages asking about the price, the effect of use, and whether they can prescribe medicines online or purchase them on behalf of others.
In response to these needs, some search websites, self-media accounts, and shopping platforms also have recommendations for hospital preparations, and some users claim that they can prescribe medicines and mail them on their behalf, charging a certain amount of errand and postage fees.
Professionals said that these preparations with targeted functions can accurately locate the "pain points" of patients, but patients must pay for the purchase in the hospital according to the prescription issued by the hospital and take it according to the doctor's advice, and should not follow the trend to buy blindly.
Some hospital preparations have become "gray" circulating commodities
Ms. Xu told the reporter that she once saw an article on a social platform about the preparations of Beijing Children's Hospital, which introduced various preparations of the hospital, including compound calamine lotion, Yindai cough mixture, tannic acid ointment, polygala Almond Mixture etc.
After bookmarking the article, the platform then recommended to her how to register at the hospital, ask a doctor, buy medicine, etc. Many netizens left messages asking if they could purchase on their behalf.
By searching keywords such as "running errands" and "purchasing medicines on behalf of others", the reporter directly contacted a purchasing agent on a shopping platform. Package mail, buyers only need to pay 40 yuan per package of medicines and 100 yuan for errands.
Some consumers also told reporters that many hospital preparations are quite popular, but it is difficult to go to the hospital to buy medicines in person, so they want to obtain them through other channels.
In addition to inquiring prices on shared content on social platforms, shopping websites find purchasing agents to run errands, and some leftover medicines of patients who have purchased medicines are also sold out through second-hand websites, making these hospital preparations a "gray" commodity in circulation.
Wei Jinghai, deputy director of the Pharmacy Department of Beijing Children's Hospital, introduced to the reporter of "Workers' Daily": "With the increasing health needs of the people, in order to meet the needs of clinical medication, medical institutions began to prepare preparations, which effectively made up for the shortage of drugs." 2019 The newly revised "Drug Administration Law" clarifies that the preparations of medical institutions should be the varieties that are clinically needed by the unit but not available in the market, and should be approved by the local drug supervision and management department, unless otherwise stipulated in the law for the preparation of traditional Chinese medicine preparations.
"Medical institution preparations generally come from clinical agreement prescriptions, with long-term clinical experience, clear curative effect, and good reputation. Its production is based entirely on the principle of patients' clinical drug needs, with good curative effect and high safety." Wei Jinghai said, It is against this background that medical institution preparations are very popular among the public.
The essence of hospital preparations is medicine rather than commodity
"The essence of hospital preparations is drugs, not commodities. The law stipulates that preparations prepared by medical institutions shall not be sold in the market." Wei Jinghai said that the management of preparations in medical institutions strictly follows the "Drug Administration Law" and "Quality Management Standards for Preparations in Medical Institutions" " and other relevant laws and regulations require that in-hospital preparations belong to the category of prescription drugs, which can only be used after a doctor has given a clear diagnosis to the patient, while prescription drugs can only be prepared, purchased and used with the prescription of a licensed physician or a licensed assistant physician.
Wang Hailun, head of the production and preparation team of the preparation room of Beijing Children's Hospital, said that the hospital's preparation production is in accordance with the "Quality Management Standards for Preparation Preparation in Medical Institutions" and strictly controls the procurement, production, drug inspection and other links. Quality control is carried out in the whole process of filling, sterilization, quality inspection, packaging and release.
"When the number of outpatient visits in hospitals increases during winter and summer vacations, the clinical demand for these preparations will also increase, such as eczema healing cream for the treatment of eczema, phosphate oral solution for the treatment of rickets, Qingzi mixture, etc., the preparation room will adjust the production plan in time and make reserves in advance." Wang Hailun said.
It is understood that with the approval of the drug regulatory department, there are currently 17 hospitals in Beijing that can adjust and use the preparations of Beijing Children's Hospital. Patients can purchase preparations according to prescriptions after visiting these hospitals.
Hospital preparations should be purchased through doctor visits
Taking Beijing Children's Hospital as an example, the way to obtain the hospital's preparations is to go to the hospital to see a doctor. After the doctor's diagnosis and prescription, you can pay for the medicine.
Returning patients can make appointments and register online through Internet hospitals, and obtain medicines by self-collection or express delivery after prescriptions are issued.
Wang Hailun said that patients need to pay attention after obtaining the medicine. The approval number of the hospital preparation is "Yaozhizi XXX".
With the development of the pharmaceutical industry, after the drugs with the same prescription are on the market, the drug registration number of the hospital will be canceled by the drug regulatory department and will no longer be produced.
In September of this year, the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision and Law Enforcement Team, together with the public security organs, organized the market supervision departments of Dongcheng, Xicheng, Haidian, Fengtai and other districts to carry out synchronous linkages to crack down on illegal acts of purchasing hospital preparations for profit. A total of 700 hospital preparations were seized. Yu bottle.
Wei Jinghai reminded that in order to ensure the safety of medication, patients should purchase the hospital’s preparations through medical treatment, not through purchasing agents, scalpers, etc. At the same time, they must pay attention to whether the labels, outer packaging, and instructions of the purchased drugs have preparation units, preparation addresses, and functions. Indications, usage and dosage, production batch number, production date and expiration date and other information.
Liu Xiaoyan (Worker's Daily)