The pharmacist will bring the medication home to the disabled person and charge a fee for it. The Ministry of Health has announced an amendment to ensure the safety of such a shipment, reports Rzeczpospolita on Tuesday.
After the protests of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council (NRA), the Ministry of Health has announced a change in the regulations on the mail-order sale of drugs for the disabled. In the amendment to the Special Law Act, which was submitted for public consultation in June by the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice wants to enable the delivery of drugs by pharmacists. Pharmacists would be able to charge for delivery, we read in Rzeczpospolita.
According to the draft amendment to the act on information in health care, disabled people will be able to order prescription drugs online, and the pharmacy will send them by post. The problem is that – as noted by the Polish Bar Council – this is contrary to the current wording of the pharmaceutical law, which Art. 103 prohibits the mail-order sale of prescription drugs under penalty of losing the authorization to run a pharmacy – reminds the newspaper.
However, the proposed correction does not satisfy pharmacists. “I doubt that any of the pharmacists would find time to distribute drugs to patients, especially since many of them run one-man pharmacies where they work 12 hours each,” Mariusz Politowicz, a member of the Polish Bar Council and the owner of a pharmacy in Pleszew, told the daily.