The House of Representatives, led by Speaker Brother Yahya Ali Al-Ra’i, voted today on the draft law concerning medicine and pharmacy. This decision came after a thorough discussion and a detailed article-by-article vote based on the report from the special committee assigned to review the law.
In the session attended by government representatives, including the Minister of Health and Environment, Dr. Ali Shaiban, and the Chairman of the Supreme Authority for Drugs, Dr. Ali Abbas, the Council approved the law in its final form.
The draft law included (75) articles distributed over ten chapters, the first and second chapters contained the name, definitions, objectives, and what concerns medicine, while the third and fourth chapters contained narcotic and psychotropic substances and the rational use of medicine.
Chapters V and VI covered national pharmaceutical industries and pharmaceutical information, chapters VII and VIII dealt with aspects related to pharmacy regulation, control, and inspection, and the ninth and tenth contained penalties and final provisions.
The draft law aims to regulate the registration, import, manufacture, distribution, and circulation of medicine, and to ensure its safety, quality, effectiveness, and safety, in addition to the rational use of medicine and the regulation of its prescription, dispensing, and sale.
The project also aimed to protect the individual and society from the damages and dangers resulting from the misuse or circulation of medicine or counterfeit and skilled drugs or narcotic and psychotropic substances, in addition to regulating the practice of the pharmacy profession according to scientific standards to ensure its advancement and protect society from improper practices, as well as regulating the foundations and rules for establishing, opening, managing and operating pharmaceutical facilities and their activities, and about encouraging, localizing and developing pharmaceutical industries and achieving self-sufficiency.
The Council had started the session by reviewing and approving the minutes of its previous meeting and will continue to hold its business sessions next Saturday, God willing.
