On June 7, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health informed that after 3 weeks of simultaneous inspections in the peak period of the fight to prevent and repel smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeit goods, and infringement of intellectual property rights, it has initially achieved some remarkable results.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has inspected 111 facilities, including 8 cosmetic facilities, 63 pharmaceutical businesses, 21 medical equipment businesses, and 19 medical examination and treatment facilities.
As a result, 41 establishments were handled with a total amount of more than 2.2 billion VND; forced to return 39 million VND for the price of violating exhibits (cosmetics); issued a decision to revoke 122 self-declaration forms for classified medical equipment AB in violation of regulations. At the same time, some violations were transferred to the investigation agency for handling.
During the period of May 31 - June 6, the district and county health departments, Thu Duc City also inspected 202 medical and pharmaceutical establishments in the management area; handled 8 establishments with a total fine of VND 133,500,000.
Common violations in the pharmaceutical sector include trading in drugs of unknown origin, no invoices or documents; buying drugs, selling drugs to establishments without a certificate of eligibility for pharmaceutical business.
For the field of cosmetics, cosmetic advertising without a certificate of advertising content from the Department of Health...
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said that in the coming time, it will continue to strengthen inspection, supervision, and post-inspection work, especially continuing to organize peak periods of surprise inspections and thematic inspections to prevent crimes of manufacturing and trading in counterfeit, fake, and poor quality goods in the fields of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and medical equipment to ensure people's health.
The health sector strongly condemned individuals and organizations that produce and trade counterfeit goods, especially medicine, functional foods, cosmetics, and medical equipment. At the same time, individuals who assist and cover up this activity were condemned for directly affecting the health of users.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health calls on each citizen to join hands to contribute to this fierce battle. The Department of Health has established a hotline and an online Health application to receive feedback from people and handle cases of production, business, and advertising that are not in accordance with regulations. Timely reporting to the authorities will help promptly prevent counterfeit, fake, and airlined goods that meet the quality standards in circulation, reducing the risk of spreading.
The referee's punishment is not enough to deter
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health assessed that the situation of counterfeit, fake, and poor quality goods continues in the market with increasingly complex tricks, despite efforts to inspect and handle by the health sector and functional forces, showing that current sanctions are not enough to deter compared to the huge profits from the act of trading in counterfeit goods.
The City Department of Health continues to review the provisions of the law to propose to increase the level of administrative sanctions; Proposing to amend criminal law towards expanding the scope of application and increasing the penalty frame, supplementing the sanctioning level for abetting and covering the production, trading of time, fake and poor quality goods affecting people's health.
