The net buys the prescription medicine to release, the medicine safety will become the biggest question

Absrtact: A few days ago, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration issued the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", the first time to release prescription drugs in the electric business channel sales, become the focus of social concern. Industry insiders believe that the country on the net sale

Recently, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration issued the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", the first time to release prescription drugs in the electric business channel sales, become the focus of social concern.

Industry insiders believe that the state of the release of prescription drugs to the net, will be the future development of drug circulation industry has far-reaching impact. However, some experts said that the Internet to buy prescription drugs to release, drug safety will become the biggest doubt.

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A few days ago, in this draft of the request for comment, relaxed the main business, open prescription drug sales, the recognition of Third-party platform legal. Proponents of a new policy that may be about to emerge are one of the best medical policies of the year.

Happy People online pharmacy director Liang Yongjian said that the ban on the sale of prescription drugs will make the drug price competition becomes more intense, people will be expected to enjoy the most affordable drug prices. He expects drug prices to drop 15% to 20% after the release. "At present, 80% of the drug in the hospital sales, the new policy will become pharmacies to seize the market share of the breakthrough, the triage of hospital prescriptions, reduce drug prices, promote health reform are important role." ”

It is understood that domestic drugs are divided into prescription drugs (RX) and over-the-counter drugs (OTC). Among them, the prescription drug is the mainstream just need, occupy 80% of the market, need a doctor to prescribe to sell and use.

To this huge market, the electric business giant has already been eyeing, and preliminary completes the medicine product sale layout. At present, the third party electric business platform, already has the day Cat Medicine Hall and Jingdong, when, store 1th, Amazon's medicine channel, and good pharmacist, happy person net, the gold elephant net and so on also already entered the vertical medicine electric Business Line camp. With the internet's inability to sell prescription drugs, its turnover is still growing rapidly. According to the Chinese Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Research Center statistics, 2012, China's pharmaceutical business, the size of 1.6 billion yuan, and 2013 to reach 4.26 billion yuan. CIC Consultant Research director Guofan said that the entire prescription drug market scale of hundreds of billions of dollars, if the net sale prescription drug release, will give the medical and electronic business to bring huge opportunities.

Experts worry about drug safety

However, some experts expressed concern about the release of prescription drugs online, saying it could become a hotbed for the spread of counterfeit drugs and dangerous drugs.

Wei planning system of the national rational use of drug monitoring systems expert Sun Zhongxi said that the Internet to buy prescription drugs to release, drug safety into the biggest doubt. The prescription medicine has certain harm, when sale, the licensed pharmacist and the patient carries on face-to-face communication, each person's situation is different, the medicine which opens is also different. "Many drugs have taboos and side effects, and may be a single drug, but a few medications may become poison," he said. There are a lot of drug doses, as long as the difference in a few micrograms, the efficacy of the distance, this is not a medical knowledge of patients with a huge risk. ”

Zheng, a pharmacist at Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing, also has doubts about the safety of online sales of prescription drugs. "On-line sales, the prescription review is a hassle." Online pharmacy is difficult to get directly to the prescriptions issued by the hospital, only through video, fax, photos and other ways to pass the paper prescription and audit, prescription authenticity, legality difficult to identify, prescribing whether the right to have a prescription is difficult to query. At the same time, many prescription drugs in the preservation of the temperature is required, once more than the preservation temperature, the drug may melt, deterioration, become inferior medicine. ”

At the same time, the release of prescription drugs online sales, the regulatory authorities will increase the difficulty. A person who declined to be named told reporters that the scope of their business could spread across the country because of the territorial jurisdiction of online pharmacies, which would increase the difficulty of regulation and the workload of regulatory authorities. "Many companies into the network to sell drugs, regulatory pressure will also be steep." Once the regulatory network fails to achieve full coverage, online pharmacies will provide more room for false medical information and counterfeit drugs. "Reporter Qianyuyang