“A lot of expired drugs are left in the home. I do not know where to recycle. Can pharmacies be able to sell drugs to avoid waste?” Many consumers are very interested in the issue of expired drug recalls in the past few days. They said that pharmacies Without providing retail drug services, patients can only buy the entire box and can't eat it. One doctor said that more than 10 kinds of drugs can be sold in retail.

Demolition of retail drugs is an effective measure to prevent the waste of drugs. According to the "Policy Quality Management Regulations" promulgated by the State, pharmacies should set up special counters to facilitate the purchase of drugs for customers. However, the reporter learned that most pharmacies in the city did not dismantle the retail drug counters, even if there were fake ones.

Pharmacy. Drugs can not be unpacked only the entire box to sell the majority of pharmacies do not provide services to split the drug, drugs can not be unpacked, only the entire box to sell. The pharmacy staff said that it has been unclear how this retail drug has been dismantled. Some drugstores do not provide retail drug service, but the counter of "removing retail drug counters" is also affixed on a counter of a pharmacy. “Two-year-old drug counters were set up two years ago.” The staff of the pharmacy stated that if the zero-removed drugs are bottled, they must be picked up with tools such as disinfected spoons, tweezers, and trays. It is very troublesome for the doctors to prescribe drugs. , Also looking for packaging bags, writing a doctor's advice, etc., it is cumbersome, canceled the split medicine cabinet.

According to the "Pharmaceutical Business Quality Management Regulations", certified drug sales companies should have a counter for counterfeiting.

Doctors >> More than 10 kinds of drugs can be sold in retail outlets at the community health service station in the square. The head of the health service station, Li Zhenglian, introduced that the health service station has set up a retail drug service as required to prevent patients from having to waste their medicine. "Some medicines can be good if you eat a few tablets. If you buy a whole box of 30 tablets, the rest will be wasted." Li Zhenglian said that some medicines can't be unzipped according to their drug properties, but there are also more than 10 medicines that can be unpacked, such as PPA (treatment for diarrhea), pipemidic acid (anti-inflammatory), naproxen (treating fever), ibuprofen (treating headaches), brain clearing tablets (treating headaches), craniopain (treating headaches), licorice tablets (birth control) , Motilin (treatment of gastrointestinal) and so on.

"For example, if you have gastrointestinal discomfort, you can generally eat three or four tablets of morphine, but you will buy 30 tablets," said Li Zhenglian. This saves the patient a lot of money, and also prevents the patient from producing too much expired medicine at home. .

The staff of Zhongtong Community Health Service Station introduced that common diseases such as colds and diarrhea often lead to overdose of a box of medicine. You can buy medicine at the pharmacy. Once you buy it, you have the whole box and the whole bottle. You can't finish the medicine, but the medicine will expire after a long time. The staff member said that they will disassemble the entire box of medicine according to the patient's condition.

According to the chief physician of a hospital in a city, apart from the pharmacies, the elimination of drugs will affect the sales volume and income of the drugs. The salesperson’s income is linked to the sales volume, so the salesperson will first recommend the customer to buy the entire box of drugs, and the pharmacy will not take the initiative to bring drugs. Remove retail sales.

The reporter learned from the Municipal Health Bureau that most of the city’s public medical and health institutions have dismantled the retail drug service.

The Food and Drug Administration >> There are five expired medicine recycling points in the city. The reporter learned that according to the provisions of the State Administration of Food and Drug Control, to ensure the safety of the medicines for the zero-opening and the safe and effective use of the patients, the pharmacy staff must be in each dispensing bag. The details of the drug name, taking time, etc. are indicated above to ensure that the zero-clearing drug does not cause secondary pollution.

The medicines that can’t be eaten are left at home. When the next time they fall ill, either the medicine is not symptomatic, or the amount of medicine is not enough. How to deal with these medicines has become a nuisance. The reporter learned from the Liaocheng City Food and Drug Administration that there are now 5 in the city. Expired drug recovery point. According to the staff of Dongchang Road Limin Pharmacy, the individual's expired drug pharmacies will provide recovery services, and expired drugs at drug concentration points such as hospitals and clinics will not be recovered. The expired drugs recovered are sent to the Food and Drug Administration for centralized treatment.

The pharmacy worker who provided expired drug recovery business reminded the public that if the medicine stored in the home is going to expire or has expired, it should be stopped, properly placed, and prevented from being eaten by the family, and then sent to the collection point for disposal.