Abou Faour Says Unified Prescription Form to Be Implemented June 1

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour announced Monday that the primary date to launch the unified prescription is on the first of June.

“A committee will be formed to follow up the implementation of the prescription,” Abou Faour stressed in a press conference.

He considered that the unified prescription “benefits the doctor and the patient.”

Abou Faour stressed that an agreement has been signed with a company to print around 300,000 booklet per year from the unified prescriptions.

The Parliament endorsed a draft-law in 2010 to monitor the selling of medication by pharmacists to patients to prove a legal consent between the doctor and his patient when an agreement is made to switch to generic drugs.

Abou Faour previously stressed that the signature of the doctor cannot be forged on any unified prescription form as there are three copies of it.

“We are inclined to fortify the conditions of doctors... but our main goal is to protect and treat the people justly,” the minister stressed.

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