The regulation of prescription and selling medicament enclosing the resolution No 1847/2003/QD-BYT of May 28/2003 includes 4 Chapters. Chapter I: General considerations with the articles 1,2,3,4. Chapter II: Ordonnance and prescription with the articles 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13. Chapter III: Selling prescribed medicaments, articles 14,15,16,17,18,19,20. Chapter IV: Implementation – Articles 21,22,23,24
Prescriptions, Drug ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Social Control, Formal

The Guide comprises chapters. I. Common regulation (4 items); II. Standard, condition of private medical and pharmaceutical practice facilities (13 items). III. Domain of private medical and pharmaceutical practice categories (3 items). IV Manpower and responsibility of private medical and pharmaceutical practice (1 items). V. Procedures and certification of standard and condition to establish private medical and pharmaceutical practice clinic (9 items). VI. Inspection, control, and dispose violation (2 items). VII. Implement provision (one items).
Pharmacy ; Education, Pharmacy

The report has evaluated guidance, management for health task in 1997 and policy and great solution of Branch in 1998. Including: (1) Directive ideology: improve a health index, decrease of the morbidity and mortality, realize equitableness in health care, socialization of health activity, strengthen effect of local health. (2) Important points: Realize Resolution of 2,3,4 (Central Executive Committee VIII of Vietnam Communist Party), decree 01/CP about local health organization, socialize health task, reform on Health administrative System procedures, mobilization of health resources, national policy of drug and health programs.
Public Health ; Orientation

Implementation of the disicion No242/1999/QD-TTG dated December 30th 1999 by Prime Minister on the management of import and export in 2000, disicion No 0088/2000/QD-BTM by minister of trade on the issue of the detailed list of circulation prohibited products, implementation prohibited trading services, business prohibited products within certain condition and the document of N0 585/VPCP-KTTH by the government dated February 21, 2000 on the guidance of implementing the disicion No 242/1999/QD-TTg, the Ministry of health promulgate the circular letter No 02/2000/TT-BYT dated February 21, 2000 on the guidance of drug import and export that direct affecting the human health
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Delivery of Health Care

Basing on the law of people's health protection dated July 11, 1989, state law of private medico-pharmaceutical practice dated October 13th 1993; Decree No 06/CP dated January 29th 1994 of Government about concretization on some items in private medico-pharmaceutical practice law. Decree No 11/1999/N§-CP dated March 3, 1999 about the products is banned for circulation, trade services is banned for realization, trade services and commodities is limited for full business, or business with condition. Ministry of Health guided implementation about business standard and condition. The procedures and competence is approached to issue a certificate that is enough condition for drug business for human health protection and treatment of disease.
Delivery of Health Care ; Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Commerce

In order to develop internal force and economic practice, continuously regulate a management task, use safely, sensibly, economically drug in the hospitals and contribution on the pharmaceutical Branch of Vietnam. Ministry of Health have been had direction of number of 04/1998/CT-BYT dated April 3th 1998 with 5 contents.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Safety ; Economics

The Prime Minister promulgated the dicision N0 95/200/QD-TTG dated 15th August 2000 on the correction of some content of regulation of labelling drugs that circulate in home country and imported or exported promulgated together with dicision No. 178/1999/QD-TTg dated August 1999 by Prime Minister
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Psychotropic Drugs ; toxicity

In order to raise drug quality, guarantee safety and effective drug, Minister of Health have been issued the direction of number of 03/1998/CT-BYT, February 17th 1998 for functional units to realize.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Quality Control

To perform 3 purposes including home economy, home health, and improvement of environmental landscape. (1) Consolidate and develop role of traditional medicine in commune health and district health to performed well preliminary health care by traditional medicine. (2) Raising health education and communication. (3) Strengthen control, implement decision 03/BYT-CT of Minister of Health. Health Offices must strengthen budget for activities of traditional medicine socialization and recover a medicinal plant garden at communal health station
Acupuncture ; Medicine, Traditional ; Massage

Medical service electronic card should be given to each citizen• This card should be owned by each citizen from the nearlis years and it should be the payment tool in all secondary and tertiary hospitals• The pledged cash distribution by the politicians during the election campaigns should be placed first, in card• The card balance should be no less than MNT200,000. when patients needs to certain medical service on secondary and tertiary Hospitals• This payment tool should be able to be converted to cash for diagnosis, treatment, medical consultation and health supporting activities.• It should be transferable to family members and friends.• Some percentage of unused balance at the end of each year could be given to the individual as a bonus for protecting his health and the remaining balance could be kept intact for next year’s medical services• The card can be transferable upon death of the owner• Make a policy when the amount needed for the medical services exceeds the card balance for a given year (certain percentage of expenses of medical procedures that are done few times, but expensive could be covered by health insurance fund or by the state. This will enable the outflow of money to be directed to Mongolia and it will serve as investment in hospitals in Mongolia)Benefits of using the electronic payment card:• Patients can freely choose one’s doctor and hospital and he is able to receive one’s desired medical services• One is able to control the medical services and is able to participate equally in the processThe state will be able to:• Provide consistent and outreaching medical services• Initially the state will take the responsibility for first aid, social health services and emergency aidThe electronic card should cover:• Secondary hospital services (fully)• Tertiary hospital services (majority)Other advantages of the electronic card:• As all hospitals are on the same starting point, the medical staff will be highly motivated for a constructive competition• Improvement in qualification, accountability and service quality of the staff• Completely stop the appointment of hospital management by political party affiliations or connections. The top management will strive to make a team of qualified and skilled staff• The staff will be able to receive compensation packages that are correlated to their knowledge, qualifications, experience, skills and performances• When hospitals have “state enterprise” status and it has independent operation and management, there will be no improper activities such as outside pressures on supply and renovation of equipment and services, bidding intrigues and forced consumption and the hospitals will be able to work in business like mechanismThe biggest advantage is that there will be an unprecedented large inflow of money into health care system of MongoliaTherefore, there will be the following benefits:• Hospitals will be able to renovate, introduce know-how, train their staff and will be able to have additional funding for pay increase for the staff• It will be instrumental in launching a high cost, world class treatment and diagnosis department in the near future (heart, brain surgery and organ transplantation etc.)• There will be more highly qualified clinician doctors (educated by both of eastern and western medicines) as the hospitals will function on the basis of demands and preference by patients.• Due to the real market mechanisms only the competent hospitals will continue working after competition• Health supporting organizations will be financially sound• Because patients will have their payment tools in a form of the electronic card, some bureaucratic procedures such as the provincial affiliation and 13th form will be eliminated• Main information about the patients could be entered into the card, for example, Thaiwan has this system, so, it will create a database• When the balance is not used some interest could be accrued on the balance, like in Singapore.• Any level of hospital will be able to transform to a private entity by market principles.• It will eliminate subsidized, inefficient, high cost medical service structure that was built in socialist time and create a demand-based, smaller, but powerful and qualified medical system in Mongolia.• There will be a database with true information• The state will be able to count the population again• The state budget will increase by profit tax collection• The equipment and assets of bankrupt hospitals (with poor management and not customer oriented) should be sold in bidding and the other hospitals will be able to introduce know-how, will have funding for loans, training and new jobs.