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The government changed its decision regarding the State Medicines Service.
The government revoked its previous decision to liquidate the State Service for Medicines and Drug Control. Instead, the agency will be renamed the Ukrainian Pharmaceutical Agency (Ukrpharma Agency), which will become the sole state regulator of the pharmaceutical market. This is stated in Cabinet Resolution No. 1209.
According to the decision, the territorial bodies of the State Medicines Service will also be renamed the territorial bodies of the Ukrpharma Agency.
Earlier, the model for creating the new regulator envisioned reorganizing the State Medicines Service followed by its merger into the Ukrpharma Agency. The State Expert Center of the Ministry of Health was to become the main source of expert knowledge, personnel, and digital solutions for the new body.
The Ukrpharma Agency will be responsible for approving medicines for the market and for monitoring their quality, safety, and effectiveness.
Among the powers of the “updated” regulator will be control and market surveillance of medical devices, in vitro diagnostic devices, implantable medical devices, bioimplants, and cosmetic products.
The agency will also implement state policy on the circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, combating their illegal circulation, as well as on blood donation and the functioning of the blood system.
In other words, the government decided to transform the agency into a new body with a broader range of powers.
Recall that in June this year the Cabinet officially liquidated the State Service for Medicines and Drug Control by Resolution No. 739.
The complete liquidation of the State Service of Ukraine for Medicines and Drug Control (the State Medicines Service) instead of its reorganization threatens bureaucratic chaos lasting up to 10 years and the loss of unique industry specialists. This warning was issued to ZN.UA social affairs editor Alla Kotlyar by State Expert Center director of the Ministry of Health Edem Adamanov in the interview “Simply fixing the system at the level of surnames — doesn’t work.”
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