| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT ------- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---------- |
| No: 154/2006/QD-TTg | Hanoi, June 30, 2006 |
DECISION
APPROVING THE SCHEME ON STATE MANAGEMENT OF PHARMACEUTICALS, FOOD HYGIENE AND SAFETY AND COSMETICS IN THE 2006-2015 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 30, 1989 Law on Protection of the People's Health;
Pursuant to the June 14, 2005 Law on Pharmacy;
At the proposal of the Minister of Health,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the scheme on state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics in the 2006-2015 period with the following principal contents:
1. Objectives: To improve the quality and effectiveness of state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics in order to meet the requirements of people's health protection, care and improvement and international integration.
2. Objects governed by this scheme include drugs (modern medicines, vaccines, medical biologicals, traditional medicaments and medicines of materia medica origin), food hygiene and safety and cosmetics.
3. Major tasks:
a/ To further elaborate and perfect legal documents on state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics from the central to local level.
b/ To strengthen and improve the capabilities of central and local agencies performing state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics:
- At the central level: To reorganize, and improve the operation capability of, the Vietnam Drug Administration and the Food Hygiene and Safety Department; to promulgate a mechanism on coordina-tion among concerned units of the Health Ministry in performing state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics.
- At the provincial/municipal level: To reorganize and strengthen agencies in charge of management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics; to define and perfect the functions and tasks of the centers for testing pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics.
- To perfect the organization and enhance the capability of inspectorates in charge of pharmaceuticals and food hygiene and safety.
c/ To work out a planning on the system of establish-ments for testing pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics from the central to local level:
- To further invest in upgrading the Central Drug Test Institute, the Ho Chi Minh City Drug Test Institute and the National Institute for Assessment of Vaccines and Medical Biologicals to reach international standards.
- To upgrade the Center for Testing Food Hygiene and Safety under the Nutrition Institute into a national institute for testing food hygiene and safety; the Food Test Faculty under the Ho Chi Minh City Hygiene and Public Health Institute into an international-standard center for testing food hygiene and safety.
- To establish three international-standard centers for testing drugs, vaccines, medical biologicals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics in the northern mountainous region, Central Vietnam and the Mekong River delta region; to reorganize provincial/municipal centers for testing pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics.
d/ To build three international-standard centers for testing bioequivalence and assessing bioavailability of drugs in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh cities for use as a basis for the rational choice and safe use of quality drugs.
e/ To consolidate, reorganize and invest in improving the material foundations and equipment of, two centers for drug information and monitoring drugs' adverse effects in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh cities. To establish three regional centers in the northern mountainous region, Da Nang and Can Tho.
f/ To develop the source of officials managing pharmaceuticals, food and cosmetics; to enhance professional and managerial skills training and retraining for officials managing pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics.
g/ To define the organizational structures of agencies performing state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics to suit Vietnam's development demand and specific conditions as well as regional and international integration trend.
4. Implementation solutions
a/ Mechanisms and policies:
- To elaborate and perfect legal documents, mechanisms and policies related to state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics, particularly policies to encourage investment in and development of the production of pharmaceuticals, food and cosmetics and policies to support people living in deep-lying and remote areas and regions meeting with economic difficulties.
- To formulate mechanisms and policies to encourage and attract specialized managing officials with university or higher degree to work in localities, especially in deep-lying and remote areas.
b/ Investment and finance:
- To intensify investment in upgrading material foundations and technical equipment in service of state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics at the central and local level. To computerize state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics from the central to provincial and district level.
c/ Human resource training:
- To survey and evaluate the actual state of human resource in the domains of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics, especially in the state management of these domains, which shall serve as a basis for devising plans for their rational and efficient training, retraining and employment.
- To provide knowledge of state management of pharmaceuticals, food hygiene and safety and cosmetics for managing officials from the central to local level.
- To draw up plans on training mountainous provinces' officials to obtain university degree in pharmacy, food and cosmetics; to intensify the training of district pharmacists to obtain university or intermediate degree, and commune pharmacists to obtain intermediate or primary degree.
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