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Ø Prescriptions medicines may be dispensed only by duly registered and licensed pharmacist and only with a valid prescription of a physician, dentist or veterinarian.
· RA 10918 SECTION 33
RA 10918
Philippine Pharmacy Act
RA 9165
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
RA 8203
Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs
RA 9994
Expanded Senior Citizens Act
RA 9502
Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008
RA 6675
Generics Act
An act regulating and modernizing the practice of Pharmacy in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose RA 5921.
Philippine Pharmacy Act
An act instituting the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2022.
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
An act prohibiting counterfeit drugs, providing penalties for violations and appropriating funds therefor.
Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs
An Act Granting Additional Benefits and Privileges to Senior Citizens. Further Amending RA No. 7432, as amended, otherwise known as an act to maximize the Contribution of Senior Citizens.
Expanded Senior Citizens Act
An act providing for cheaper and quality medicines, amending for the purpose RA No 8293 or the intellectual property code, RA No. 6675 or the Generics Act of 1988, and RA No. 5921 or the Pharmacy Law, and for other purposes
Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008
An act to promote, require, and ensure the production of an adequate supply, distribution, use and acceptance of drugs and medicines identified by their generic names.
Generics Act
Ø This is the policy and program of the national government to ensure that safe and effective drugs are made available to all Filipinos at any time and place and at reasonable cost.
· NATIONAL DRUG POLICY (NDP)
Ø Through the initiatives of the Department of Health, a Task Force on Pharmaceuticals was set up in June 1986.
· NATIONAL DRUG POLICY (NDP)
STEPS IN FORMULATING THE NATIONAL DRUG POLICY (NDP
1. CONSULTATIONS
2. LOCAL RESEARCH
3. INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH
Ø The quality assurance of safe and effective pharmaceutical products through quality control is a basic need.
QUALITY ASSURANCE OF DRUGS
Ø It calls for the promotion of the rational use of drugs by health professionals and consumers.
RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND CONSUMERS
Ø It requires the regulation of the importation, manufacture, marketing and consumer utilization of all pharmaceutical products.
QUALITY ASSURANCE OF DRUGS
Ø It refers to the practice of using only the necessary and effective drugs in treating an illness.
**. RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND CONSUMERS**
