According to the list announced by the Department of Health, the establishments belong to many types such as pharmacies, pharmacies, traditional medicine business establishments, traditional medicine business establishments and some related functional food business establishments. These establishments are located in many communes and wards such as Thuy Nguyen, Thien Huong, Nam Trieu, Hong Bang, Hai An, An Bien, An Duong, Tien Lang, Kien An, Do Son...
Also according to the Department of Health, the Department of Health has coordinated with the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones to review, grasp, conduct surprise inspections and handle administrative violations against pharmaceutical business establishments that have not been granted Certificates of eligibility for pharmaceutical business (referred to as unlicensed pharmaceutical business establishments - according to the Department of Health).
Through inspection, functional forces recorded that some pharmaceutical business establishments had not been granted Certificates of eligibility for pharmaceutical business.
Some establishments have hanging signs of pharmacies and pharmacies and have closed, the delegation could not inspect the business operations of these establishments; some others stopped pharmaceutical business operations but still hung signs.
Some establishments only trade in functional foods or do not have pharmaceutical business establishments at addresses reported by Commune, Ward, and Special Zone People's Committees...
To continue to strengthen the effectiveness of state management and definitively handle the situation of having unlicensed pharmaceutical business establishments, the Department of Health requests the People's Committees of communes, wards, and special zones to continue to review the list of unlicensed pharmaceutical business establishments in their managed areas; resolutely prevent the situation of having pharmaceutical business establishments operating without a Certificate of eligibility for pharmaceutical business.
At the same time, regularly organize public announcements of the list of unlicensed pharmaceutical business establishments (facility name, facility address...) on local mass media and other forms to warn of risks and propagate to people to recognize, not to buy and sell drugs, or use drugs at unlicensed pharmaceutical business establishments.
