Strengthening the management of pharmaceutical business activities by e-commerce method

The Drug Administration of Vietnam said that recently, the mass media has reported on the phenomenon of buying and selling drugs, including prescription drugs and drugs subject to special control, on social networking sites. In response to this situation, the Drug Administration of Vietnam has requested units and organizations selling products through e-commerce to take measures to control and prevent these behaviors.

Patients need to buy medicine with a prescription from a doctor or medical facility at licensed pharmacies and drugstores.

The Drug Administration of Vietnam requests the Department of Health of provinces and centrally-run cities to direct and coordinate with relevant units to strengthen inspection, examination and supervision of pharmaceutical business establishments in the area to maintain proper implementation of professional regulations; ensure strict compliance with legal regulations in pharmaceutical business activities. In particular, strengthen the inspection and supervision of drug retail establishments in the area to detect and prevent pharmaceutical business at places other than the business location stated on the Certificate of Eligibility for Pharmaceutical Business or permitted by competent state agencies (currently online trading); purchase and sale of prescription drugs, drugs subject to special control not in accordance with regulations and strictly handle violations (if any).

At the same time, strengthen information and dissemination to pharmaceutical businesses in the area of ​​legal regulations on the pharmaceutical sector (including new regulations in Law No. 44/2024/QH15 amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Pharmacy effective from July 1, 2025), the principles of "Good Practice" standards, which require pharmaceutical businesses to focus on checking and controlling the origin of drugs, drug quality, and expiry date of drugs before putting them into circulation on the market, strengthen the work of checking legal documents of suppliers and customers, only buy and sell drugs to pharmaceutical businesses with certificates of eligibility to do pharmaceutical business with appropriate business scope, update documents regulating regulations on the purchase and sale of prescription drugs and special control drugs; Increase information to people to be "smart consumers", need to raise vigilance to join hands with state management agencies in the fight against counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, and commercial fraud.

Hong Chuyen

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/xa-hoi/202504/tang-cuong-quan-ly-hoat-dong-kinh-doanh-duoc-theo-phuong-thuc-thuong-mai-dien-tu-3d40bd1/