The Commission of Article 90 of the Parliament has objected to the granting of an exclusive license for the online distribution of drugs to day Insurance and has warned the Ministry of Health that it will send the case of withdrawal to the competent authorities
According to the IDEA, This commission has called for the formulation of guidelines for the online distribution of medicine. the Ministry of Health’s resistance to granting licenses to online drug distribution platforms has also prompted the parliament to protest.
This ministry had emphasized the legality of the activity of drug distribution platforms and rejected the claim of illegality of their activity by the Food and Drug Organization after the presidential legal vice president twice, once in July and once in mid-October.
Even before that, on September 4, the deregulation board of the Ministry of Economy approved the legal activity of drug distribution and sales platforms, but the first vice president canceled it with the announcement of the head of the Food and Drug Organization.
Now, Nasrollah Pejmanfar, the head of the 90th Parliament Commission, has protested in a letter addressed to Bahram eynollahi, the Minister of Health, regarding the granting of an exclusive license to day insurance for the online distribution of medicine.
In this regard, he has written: “Despite the lack of a complete response regarding the granting of a license to distribute drugs online to day Insurance Joint Stock Company, contrary to the answer given and according to the director of Day Insurance Medical Insurance, drug delivery to veterans is carried out 70% across the country, while In response to the announcement, the beneficiaries of the plan have been reduced to only 2,000 people in Tehran.
Before this, the head of Food and Drug Organization in November 2022, in a letter to the Electronic Commerce Development Center, requested the issuance of an electronic payment portal license for this insurance, and it was mentioned that this organization has given a license for the online distribution of medicine to Day Insurance.
Even Mojtaba Tavangar, the head of the Digital Economy Committee of the Parliament, protested to the Minister of Health regarding the granting of an exclusive license to this insurance and demanded the presence of domestic platforms in this market.
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In the continuation of the letter of the Parliament’s Article 90 Commission to the Minister of Health, it is mentioned that in the Day insurance plan, in addition to the cost of the technical right of the pharmacy, an amount of 30 thousand Tomans is charged for packaging and sending each drug package, while with the removal of the Day insurance monopoly, the cost is lower. It is paid from the treasury.
Also, referring to the difficulty in finding medicine for other groups and patients, including butterfly, transplant, hemophilia, dialysis and MS patients, this commission has requested to take necessary measures for this category of patients.
Pejmanfar further called for the development of guidelines for the support of knowledge-based and job-creating production in the field of health and wrote: “The time for ambiguity is over and now is the time to develop the above guidelines with the participation of economic stakeholders.
The delay in compiling this instruction, regardless of the legal obligation, has caused the unipolarization of the space and the growth of a certain platform, and any violation committed by the platforms during this period is due to the omission of the officials of the ministry under your authority.”
The directive he mentioned is a task that the Ministry of Health should be responsible for in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications, and according to it, it should have compiled the aforementioned directive 2 months after the date of the notification of the regulation on supporting knowledge-based and job-creating production in the field of health, but it did not do this. .
Also, the Ministry of Health has been warned that the file of withdrawal is being completed to be submitted to the competent authorities.
In the continuation of this mentioned warning, according to the four-month deadline for the formulation of new guidelines, if the deadline expires and the guidelines are not formulated, the executive guarantee of Article 90 Commission will be activated.
In the end, it is emphasized that no rules for data storage and processing can be written in this instruction.
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