Instead of issuing licenses for drug distribution businesses, the Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Organization issued a license for the online distribution of drugs in accordance with the letter of the Commission of Principle 90, which asked the Ministry of Health to take the necessary measures to issue a license for the electronic delivery of drugs through platforms. to provide or only invalidate the license issued in this regard
According to Iran digital economy annotation, the Ministry of Health cited the letter of the Article 90 Commission as the reason for this action. In a letter to the Ministry of Health at the end of last December, the 90th Committee of the Parliament announced that the granting of an exclusive license for home delivery of medicine to Bimeh Day Insurance Company, in terms of registering the license in the National License Portal, is contrary to the Law on Facilitating the Issuance of Business Licensing.
In terms of refusing to Issuing a license for other applicant businesses is the same service, therefore, the license granted must be canceled within the next month at the latest or the possibility of providing services equally to all eligible applicant businesses.
After this letter, the Ministry of Health, in a letter to Insurance Day, citing the Commission’s letter of Article 90, announced that the license granted to this insurance company in July 2023 has expired, and any activity and provision of home delivery services is subject to notification. The relevant provisions are that the license for drug delivery activity will be canceled in January.
In a letter sent to the Ministry of Health in the month of December, the Article 90 Commission asked the Ministry to provide within 30 working days a mechanism for the activities of applicants in the field of delivering medicine to homes, but the Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Organization instead of specifying The mechanism of sending medicine, they also revoked the issued license.
Therefore, in a letter to the Article 90 Commission, the CEO of Day Insurance has requested this commission to enable their activities in the field of sending medicine. In a letter sent by the CEO of Day Insurance, Taher Mouhebati, to the head of the 90th Parliament Commission, Pejmanfar, it is emphasized that this service is provided by Day Insurance only for veterans.
In this letter, he emphasized: the insurance services provided by the companies affiliated to the Shahid Foundation, in pharmacists plan, are only limited to martyrs and parents of martyrs, who practically do not have the possibility to go to the pharmacy to receive the required medicine. For this reason, Mouhebati requested Pejmanfar to specify the solution for issuing a license for insurance for the shipment of medicine and announce it to the Ministry of Health.
In response to this request, the head of the Parliament’s Article 90 Commission emphasized on the clarification of the criteria for the delivery of medicine by the Ministry of Health and thanked the Ministry of Health for revoking the insurance license for the delivery of medicine.
In his letter, he emphasized that all licenses should be issued through the national license portal and by determining the conditions of each license. Also, the rules of this business should be specified through the Food and Drug Organization, which has not been specified yet.
In his letter, he said that the purpose of the previous letter of the Article 90 Commission was only to follow up the approvals of the executive branch in view of the expiration of the legal deadline of the Ministry of Health for the formulation and notification of instructions, which in the opinion of the Article 90 Commission is considered as an omission by the Ministry of Health.
The head of the Article 90 Commission emphasized in his report that the rules for storing and processing “message data” related to medical records are not clear, a task that the Ministry of Health should have defined for 20 years and has not yet done so, there may be challenges and risks for the service. Provide information to the families of the martyrs and martyrs because the health data of the family of the martyrs and martyrs and their residence are sensitive like all Iranian citizens and considerations should be made in this regard.
According to Article 8 of the Regulation on supporting knowledge-based and job-creating production in the field of health, which was approved in January 2021, the Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications, was obliged to implement within two months the smartening program of the supply chain of health-oriented services and products, including the components of the regulatory-efficiency system. regulatory-operator) to approve.
But so far, the Ministry of Health has not taken any action in this regard. The implementation of this task by the Ministry of Health has been followed many times by the presidential legal vice, the deregulation board and the digital economy working group of the government, and finally it was decided that the medicine distribution mechanism should be formulated and communicated by the Ministry of Health and the steering committee of the digital economy.
Despite all the delays made by the Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Organization, the Supreme Council of the Medical System protested again in a statement against Afshar for developing guidelines for online sales of drugs.
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