The pharmaceutical market in Vietnam met the needs of disease prevention and care in which the foreign pharmaceutical companies contributed to this aspect. However, the activities of foreign pharmaceutical companies mainly focused the trading. Their investment in the drug manufacture was limited and was only on the popular drugs
Financial Management ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

Since Government have been defined the economy of Vietnam is commodity economy with multicomponent under management of Government. The pharmaceutical Branch have been had a firm advance that responded the requisition about drug in task of protection and care of people's health. The attainment such results is to have the great contribution of private pharmaceutical practice system. We hope that the pharmaceutical will have soon a summation about this problem to infer strengths and weaknesses, and valuable lessons, helping the private pharmaceutical practice more and more completely
Pharmaceutical Services ; Pharmacy

Figures of buying turnover grow; total expense and transport expense structure; use of capita resource; resource structure and distribution were studied. Results: Company’s activity is stable and gradually developing; the business scale is expanded, resource is richened, the capital is well managed.
Commerce ; Pharmaceutical Preparations

A essential drug resource is consuming at Vietnam is imported. Manufacturing on the domestic drug only met about 25-30% requirement. We must have specific feasable solution for Vietnamese pharmaceutical industry to meet 60% of people drug requirement in 2005 as such pharmaceutical developmental policy
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Health Care Sector

An investigation of drug and medical equipment in port and export companies, pharmaceutical companies and factories, international pharmaceutical enterprises, hospitals and pharmacies, and morbidity structure, pharmaceutical and medical science and technology, drug distribution networks...to find the objective and subjective causes that impacted on the drug market in Vietnam has shown that there were many factors impacted on the drug market, including physicians, patients, morbidity structure, health economy, health policy, medical and pharmaceutical science which generated a various, exciting drug market during 1991-2000. All factors promoted the production and business to meet the needs of user.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Health Care Sector

Drug is a kind of products that must be a good quality. Therefore, it is necessary to unify the definition of drug quality and related terms and strengthen the awareness in assuring the drug quality. The activities of assurance and management of drug quality should be enhanced to reduce the inqualitative drugs circulated in the market.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Quality Control

To the end of 2003, there were 73 national pharmacy businesses conducting capitalization. Of these businesses, there were 8 central national pharmaceutical businesses and 65 local national pharmacy businesses. 33/64 cities and provinces in nationwide was conducted capitalization. Stock process in national business and in national pharmaceutical business was faster than before but had not completed planning. Funds size of business conducting stock was small. In pharmacy, there were 9 businesses having 10 billion of funds conducted stock, acquired 42.9% of national pharmaceutical businesses with 10 billion of funds. After capitalization, the number of business having 100% of government funds was only 4.1%; and business having governable shares belong to government were 6.2%. 11/73 pharmaceutical joint stock companies had production line meeting to GMP standard
Pharmacy ; Commerce

Pharmaceutical Preparations; Medicine; Therapeutics; hospitals; drugs Results of the survey on implementing instruction 30/CT – BYT (Ministry of Health – MOH) of 19/8 Hospital in the period of 1997-2001, showed that: Council of medicine and treatment war established and broadened its activities. The medicine list of 19/8 Hospital is amended and supplemented every year. The rate of essential medicine increases from 64.64% to 67.15%, the rate of domestic drugs also see the rise from 24.5% to 33.8%. However there was a decrease from 75.5% down to 66.2% of imported drugs. The supply of medicine increased annually: 142.9% in 2001 compares to that of 100% in 1997. The rate of antibiotic and vitamin witness the decrease by 14% and 12.7% respectively
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Medicine ; Therapeutics ; hospitals ; drugs

The reality, some results and shortcomings of privatization process of state owned pharmacies were evaluated at period 1999-2003. The result: privatizating state owned pharmacies is relatively good, the amount of privatizated state owned pharmacies increase continously in past years. However, although there were 54,1% of provinces and cities implementing privatization but mainly that are enterprises belong to 2 regions of The Red river delta and South- East Viet Nam. This showed that the privatization process of regions isn’t equal. According to the plan, in 1998 there had been 7 units carrying out privatization but to the end of the 2000, there was only 1 first unit conversing successtly. That is the branch of Hai Phong 1 Health company changing into HaiPhong Health trade privatization company. Estimating to 12/2003, there were 8 center state owned pharmacies and 65 local state owned pharmacies privatized. They concentrate most in South VietNam
Pharmacies ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Epidemiology

Background: For a long time, the domestic pharmaceutical companies have performed Public Relation (PR) activities to help their business and ensure good relations with their customers. However, the effects of the pharmaceutical companies\u2019 PR activities were not high. Objective: To discover the actual circumstances of PR for a number of pharmaceutical companies in Viet Nam in recent years. Subjects and method: Subjects were the PR activities of pharmaceutical companies through the relations with various public groups. This was a descriptive, retrospective and observational study. Results: The pharmaceutical companies were more and more interested in relations with the public through sponsorship programs. Client relations had been consolidated after health consultancies, customer conferences, workshops, trade fairs, etc\u2026 The image of domestic pharmaceutical companies has appeared more often on mass media. Internal PR activities had built the culture of business and cemented relations between the company and employees. Investment and distribution relations had lagged behind.Conclusions: The PR activities of the pharmaceutical companies appeared to be more varied through relations with various public groups, making contributions to the development of the company.
Pharmaceutical company ; Public Relation activity ; PR activity