Investigation on the false drugs in Ho Chi Minh during 1997-1999
- Author:
Trang Thi Mai Duong
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
drug
- MeSH:
Pharmaceutical Preparations;
Drug Approval
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
1999;274(2):7-9
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Producing counterfeits and put them in circulation in Ho Chi Minh market - the biggest drug market of Vietnam - is a true thing. This real problem is blamable and now, it becomes a pressing matter, of The Vietnamese Drug Administration because of bad effects caused by the counterfeits on the fields following: they caused worse effects on patient's situations. They caused heavy losses of finance for patients and true laboratories. And these things create damage to home country's economies. They caused a confused situation to drug market and this thing pushes up increasing more difficulties for The Drug Administration and the Health Ministry. They make reducing the confidence of people on drugs that made in Vietnam and one more important thing is to decline the prestige of The Vietnamese Pharmacy before international friends. This is our first research on the problem with a view to making contribution to development of the national pharmacy
