When dealing with drug shortages will no longer have

Source: health

        Under the intervention of administrative means, happened two months ago, a sulfhydryl imidazole piece shortage at present. Recently, reporters learned from national health and family planning commission, the first batch of 16 million pieces of armor sh imidazole is according to the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the department of health summary in the number of drug distribution in place, the second batch of methyl sulfhydryl imidazole have also started to put on, two batches of total 60 million pieces.

        Current, each district are also supplement list of essential medicines, some cheap but good curative effect of medicine were included. Worrying is, however, after this will not be running a "a sulfhydryl imidazole piece"? In fact, this kind of worry over the years there have been, when does not turn into reality.

        Report information monitoring system is not mature

        This domestic a sulfhydryl imidazole shortages, from preliminary into the public eye to relief, it took nearly two months. People can not help but ask, since the early warning signal, why can't the first time to regulators medicine the situation? In view of the drug supply, didn't have a set of normalized information monitoring and reporting mechanism?

        The ministry of health and ministry of 2011 issued by regarding the treatment of infectious diseases drugs and performances category basic drug supply security work opinion ", is the only a journalists access to the ministry level requirements to shortage of drug information file. Their demands on the health administrative department at the provincial level summary shortage of drug information, together with the ministry departments submit it to the ministry of health and ministry of industry and for the record, but did not report to higher implementation period and frequency.

        Over the past two years, the above documents to carry out the situation? Issued the relevant ministries and commissions of the reporter to interview outline, but has not been a reply.

        At present, some local governments are trying to explore the solution by using the method of administrative intervention, but according to the reporter investigated understanding, these exploration is still far behind "climate".

        On April 17, this year, the Beijing municipal health bureau issued the notice about the shortage of medical institutions in drug investigation, requirement of medical institutions at all levels within their respective jurisdictions through Beijing medicine centralized purchasing center website drug shortage report system, during the period of April 18 ~ 28, reports the clinical curative effect is necessary, and the shortage of supplies drug information. Reported, but the information is focused on a certain period of time at once, or a long-term, dynamic normal work, and could not be detected.

        Jiangsu province health department this year on March 25, issued the notice about increase drug supply shortage of security work, the requirements of the first month of each quarter before 20, health administrative departments at the county level will be shortage of drug information reported to the municipal public health administrative department; First 30, the municipal public health administrative department to summary and analysis of information, report to health.

        More provinces is through the drug centralized bid procurement platform, monitoring drug total indicators, such as the arrival rate to judge the drug supply. But after information report, how to communicate with the pharmaceutical producing enterprises, pharmaceutical circulation enterprises to coordinate to solve the problem, eventually in the exploration doesn't have a clear path. Some experts said, in the final analysis, pharmaceutical production, circulation is a kind of market behavior, administrative hand can "emergency", but not "thirst".

        A shortage of information publicity channels occlusion

        Set up the mechanism of information monitoring, reporting, is only the first step in treating a shortage of medicine. Regarding according to the treatment of infectious diseases drugs and performances category basic drug supply security work opinion ", the health administrative department at the provincial level shall, in conjunction with the ministry departments take the initiative to release shortage of drug varieties, enterprise production and management, the information such as inventory and reserves in the province.

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