Ho Chi Minh City fined many pharmacies for selling drugs of unknown origin.

Accordingly, the Health Department Inspectorate fined Phuc Vinh Pharmacy (40 Huynh Van Banh, Ward 15, Phu Nhuan District) VND 26 million for acts such as not opening a book or not using a computer to manage import, export, storage, tracking batch numbers, expiry dates, origins of drugs and other information as prescribed by law; Selling prescription drugs without a prescription; Trading in goods (drugs) of unknown origin.

Similarly, the Department Inspectorate also fined Khanh Thi Pharmacy (356 An Duong Vuong, Ward 10, District 6) VND 12.3 million, which was also discovered to have committed violations, including: Mixing non-medicinal products with drugs in cases where it also sells cosmetics, functional foods, and medical equipment according to the provisions of law; Not complying with regulations on good practices for drug retail establishments; Trading in goods (medicines) of unknown origin.

In addition to the fines, the above pharmacies were forced to destroy drugs of unknown origin.

Phu Vinh Pharmacy was discovered selling drugs of unknown origin.

In addition, Phuc Hau Pharmacy (247 Ly Thai To, Ward 1, District 3) was also fined VND 27.5 million by the Department of Health Inspectorate for many violations including: Not opening a book or not using a computer to manage import, export, storage, tracking batch numbers, expiry dates, drug origins and other information as prescribed by law; Not keeping documents and papers related to drug batches for the required retention period as prescribed by law; Storing and retailing drugs that are not within the scope of business stated in the certificate of eligibility for pharmaceutical business; Not having measures to isolate or store drugs of unknown origin in a separate storage area.

In the list of fines for October 2023, there are also many business households that were fined for a series of violations. Specifically, Hung Phat business household (300 Tran Hung Dao, Ward 11, District 5) was fined 37 million VND for a series of violations including:

The person in charge of the professional activities of the drug retail facility is absent during the operation of the pharmaceutical facility; Does not open a book or does not use a computer to manage the import, export, storage, tracking of batch numbers, expiry dates, origins of medicinal herbs, traditional medicines and other information as prescribed by law; Does not retain documents and papers related to medicinal ingredients (medicinal herbs) during the retention period prescribed by law; Sells pre-processed medicinal herbs that do not meet quality standards as prescribed by competent authorities; Trades goods (medicinal herbs) that are required to have product labels but do not have product labels; and Trades goods (medicinal herbs, medicinal herbs, traditional medicines) of unknown origin.

This business household was also deprived of the right to use the certificate of eligibility for pharmaceutical business and the Pharmacy Practice Certificate of Pharmacist Le Thanh Thuy for a period of 2 months. Forced to recall and label medicinal herbs and traditional medicines according to regulations; Forced to destroy medicinal herbs, medicinal herbs, traditional medicines of unknown origin; Forced to return the illegal profit of 6.5 million VND obtained from trading medicinal herbs, medicinal herbs, traditional medicines of unknown origin.

Business household Nguyen Tran Truc Huan (616B Nguyen Chi Thanh, Ward 4, District 11) was fined 3 million VND for not opening a book or not using a computer to manage import, export, storage, tracking batch numbers, expiry dates, origins of drugs and other information as prescribed by law.

Business household Cao Thi Xuan (356 An Duong Vuong, Ward 10, District 6) was fined 7.5 million VND for forging one of the documents in the application for a pharmacy practice certificate.

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/tp-hcm-xu-phat-nhieu-nha-thuoc-kinh-doanh-thuoc-khong-ro-nguon-goc-xuat-xu-post270968.html