ESTABLISHING DRUG AND TREATMENT COUNCIL IN ALL HOSPITALS
This is the requirement of the Ministry of Health issued at the Circular No. 21/2013/TT-BYT regulating the organization and operation of the Drug and Treatment Council in hospitals (hereinafter called the Council).
In accordance with this Circular, the Ministry of Health requires that the Council must be established at all hospitals, and Director of hospital decides on its establishment; the Council operates under regime of part-time work; depend on grade of hospital, the Council has at least 5 members or more. And the Council shall have meeting on a two-month basis or irregular basis which are convened by the Chairman of Council. The Council may hold irregular meeting to solve problems arising between its periodical meetings.
The Council has function of consulting director of hospital about matters involving drugs and treatment by drugs of hospitals, good implementation of national dug policy in hospital with specific provisions as criteria to select drugs for issuing list of hospital drugs; selection of guides on treatment (treatment regimens) to serve as basis for issue
of list of drugs; process and criteria to supplement or remove drugs from list of hospital drugs; criteria to select drugs in bidding for drug purchase; process of drug allocation from the Pharmacy Division to the patients aiming to ensure that drugs are used properly and safely and so on. Within that
List of drugs in hospital must satisfy principles as to ensure conformity with model of diseases and cost of drugs used for treatment in hospital; conformity of classifying the technical specialized levels; base on guides or treatment regimens already issued and applied at hospitals or the medical examination and treatment establishments; satisfying the new methods, new techniques in treatment and so on.
This Circular takes effect on September 22, 2013 and annuls the Circular No. 08/BYT-TT dated July 04, 1997 and the section 9 part III in the hospital’s regulation issued together with the Decision No. 1895/1997/QD-BYT dated September 19, 1997.
