THE
PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No:
108/2002/QD-TTg
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Hanoi,
August 15, 2002
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DECISION
APPROVING
THE "PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY TILL 2010"
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on
Organization of the Government of December 25, 2001;
Pursuant to the Law on the Protection of People’s Health of July 30, 1989;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health in Report No. 3880/TTr-BYT of May 17,
2002,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To
approve the "Pharmaceutical Development Strategy till 2010" with the
following principal contents:
1. Overall objectives:
To develop the pharmaceutical
industry into a spearhead econo-technical industry along the
industrialization-modernization direction, to take initiative in regional and
international integration so as to adequately and regularly supply quality
medicines, ensure the rational and safe use of medicines in service of the
cause of caring for and protecting the people’s health.
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a/ To invest in modern
technologies, renew equipment and management mode so that the pharmaceutical
industry step by step meets the demand for medicine raw material sources. By
the end of 2010, all establishments engaged in pharmaceuticals production,
trading, research or testing shall reach the Good Practice (GP) standard.
b/ To build industrial
establishments for the production of antibiotics and pharmaceutical chemicals,
medicine raw materials with competitive edge, especially those from materia
medica.
c/ To regularly and adequately
supply quality medicines without missing out those on the list of essential
medicines and medicines for the national health target programs (medicines for
prevention and combat of malaria, tuberculosis, goiter, etc). Special attention
shall be paid to fully providing medicine supply services for people in areas
meeting with difficulties.
d/ To ensure the rational, safe
and efficient use of medicines.
e/ To ensure that home-made
preventive and curative medicines meet 60% of the society’s demand therefor;
the average medicine spending level reaches USD 12-15/person/year; and that
every 10,000 persons shall have 1.5 pharmacists of university degree.
3. Major solutions and policies:
a/ Solutions on plannings,
technological renewal and scientific research:
- To plan the pharmaceutical
industry along the direction of industrialization, modernization and
international integration. To raise the medicine production capacity in scale
and quality, to invest hi-tech chains along the direction of taking short cut
in order to keep pace with the world level. To elaborate planning on and
modernize the medicine distribution system, including import, export, wholesale
and retail. To develop the retail network with special attention paid to
deep-lying, remote and mountainous areas and islands.
- To focus investment in
chemicals- and medicine raw material-manufacturing establishments. To give
priority to investment in manufacturing essential medicines, medicines with
high competitive egde for export, medicines from materia medica and generic
medicines as substitutes for imported medicines; to research into and
manufacture assorted medicines prepared for children and the elderly. Special
attention shall be given to materia medica development investment.
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- To closely combine human
resources and equipment of the pharmaceutical industry with the resources of
ministries, branches, research institutes and other scientific research centers
in order to conduct research into medicines and medicine raw materials, to link
research process to production reality of pharmaceuticals-manufacturing
enterprises.
b/ Solutions on human resource
organization and development:
- To strengthen and enhance the
system of the pharmaceutical State management agencies: to consolidate Vietnam
Pharmaceutical Management Department; to re-organize and raise the capability
of the specialized pharmaceutical inspectorate; to perfect organization of the
pharmaceutical management bureaus under the provincial/municipal Health
Services; and to re-elaborate the planning on medicine-manufacturing system.
- To attach importance to
training pharmaceutical human resources: to enhance the training and
re-training of pharmaceutical workers of all types. To develop post-graduate
training. To find and foster talents, train researchers of high qualifications.
To set up a number of pharmaceutical faculties in medical universities in order
to train pharmacists of university degree for areas meeting with difficulties.
- To train and rationally employ
the pharmaceutical human resources, to recruit and train them according to
their addresses so as to overcome pharmaceutical human resource imbalance
between regions, paying special attention to ensuring adequate pharmaceutical
workers for mountainous, deep-lying and remote areas as well as for districts
and communes.
c/ Solutions on medicine quality
supervision:
- To modernize the medicine
quality-securing system.
- To re-organize the system of
State inspection of medicine quality. To raise the capability of the
medicine-testing laboratories so that they shall be capable of testing
medicines circulated on market.
- To create conditions for and
encourage the establishment of modern testing service establishments outside
the State testing system.
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- To perfect the legal system on
pharmaceutical management. To elaborate the Pharmaceutical Law. To amend, supplement
and/or promulgate pharmaceutical legal documents, the system of pharmaceutical
regulations, technical norms and standards. To standardize the medicine
management, manufacture and supply activities, proceeding to reach the
international standards.
- To formulate priority policies
for enterprises that make investment in technological development and renewal
research, manufacture medicine raw materials, or produce pharmaceutical
products for export.
- To formulate policies to
promote foreign investment in the pharmaceutical industry with priority given
to projects on manufacture of medicine raw materials, especially to projects
where hi-technology and bio-technology are applied. To work out appropriate
policies on foreign investment in the field of medicine distribution.
- To diversify pharmaceutical
business forms and step up the equitization process. To encourage enterprises
to raise their research capability in order to turn out new products.
- To enhance cooperation with
countries in the region and the world, the World Health Organization and other
international organizations. To implement international economic integration
schedule in conformity with our country’s commitments in bilateral and
multilateral relations, thus step by step harmonizing Vietnam’s pharmaceutical
regulations with those of the region and the world.
- To direct and mobilize the
rational, safe and efficient use of medicines are the central and regular task
of the health service. To limit and step by step repulse the abuse of medicines,
especially antibiotics, corticoid, vitamins, special-effect medicines To
encourage the use of generic medicines, home-made medicines and traditional
medicines.
e/ Financial security:
To mobilize to the utmost and
efficiently use the State budget capital sources, bilateral- and
multilateral-cooperation capital sources of non-governmental organizations,
foreign investment capital, and capital of domestic enterprises and the
community.
- The State budget capital
sources shall be concentrated on demand for scientific and technological
research, training of human resources, development of pharmaceuticals
potentials and medicine raw material industry, investment in public-utility
enterprises and raising the capability of the State management agencies and testing
agencies.
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- Enterprises investment demand
for pharmaceuticals production and business development shall be met by loan
capital sources, own capital, equitization, etc.
Basing itself on the Strategy
implementation plan, the Ministry of Health shall draft cost estimates and send
them to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning and Investment for
consideration and inclusion into the annual budget, and then report them to the
Government for submission to the National Assembly for approval.
f/ Strategy implementation
duration:
From 2002 to 2010, divided into
two phases:
- Phase 1: From 2002 to 2005
- Phase 2: From 2006 to 2010.
Basing itself on the actual
situation, the Ministry of Health shall elaborate specific plans and objectives
for each phase in line with this Strategy’s contents.
Article 2.- The
Ministry of Health shall assume the prime responsibility and coordinate with
the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance and the
concerned ministries and branches in elaborating plans, guiding inspection,
monitoring and summing up the annual situation of implementation of the
Strategy in order to report them to the Prime Minister; make preliminary review
of the implementation of the Strategy in 2005 and the final review in 2010.
Article 3.- This
Decision takes implementation effect 15 days after its signing.
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FOR THE
PRIME MINISTER
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Pham Gia Khiem