MoH to control over dispensing medicines, prescriptions

Kuwait Ministry of Health is taking practical steps, within the framework of control of drug dispensing and disbursement saying it is subject to strict controls, reports Al-Rai daily.

The Ministry of Health will soon start activating a mechanism that enables the citizen to know which medicines are being used on his civil number. This is done to eliminate any aspect of mismanagement and misuse.

5 procedures that have been put in place – a sudden inventory of hospital pharmacies, random sampling of prescriptions, activating the automatic link between hospitals, centers and warehouses; enabling the citizen to know which medicines are taken using his civil number and direct legal procedures against those who dispense medicines to those who are not entitled to them.

The sources also pointed out that “among the measures also, are activating the computerization systems of the pharmaceutical sector and the automatic linkage between hospitals and health centers on the one hand, and the management of medical warehouses on the other hand, as well as the electronic linkage between pharmacies of health facilities and treating doctors,” stressing that “in the event of any seizure of any person who dispenses medicines to those who do not deserve it, legal measures will be taken against him directly.”