Qingdao: Notice on Further Strengthening the Protection and Price Stabilization of Anti-epidemic Drugs and Medical Devices

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In order to implement the relevant decisions and plans of the municipal government, adhere to the supply, quality and price stability, further strengthen market supervision, do a good job to stabilize and regulate the epidemic prevention medical supplies market order, December 18, the city’s market supervision department to the city’s drugs, medical equipment business units, issued a “notice on further strengthening the epidemic prevention drugs and medical devices to protect and stabilize the price of work.

The full text of the circular is as follows.

The city’s drugs and medical devices business and use units.

First, drug retail enterprises should strengthen their sense of corporate social responsibility, adhere to the overall situation and people’s livelihood, increase supply and ensure normal operation, and not suspend their business at will, and not hoard goods to sell.

Second, drug retail enterprises to strengthen the main responsibility for quality control, strict compliance with laws and regulations of drugs and medical devices such as new coronavirus antigen detection reagents and business quality management norms, shall not sell counterfeit, expired, substandard drugs and medical devices.

Third, drug retail enterprises to operate in good faith, strictly enforce the price tag system, shall not take the opportunity of the epidemic to significantly increase the price of pharmaceutical and mechanical products, shall not fabricate and disseminate information on price increases, hoarding, price gouging, shall not implement false propaganda, counterfeit confusion and other unfair competition, and shall not bundle sales.

Fourth, drug retail enterprises should be guided by licensed pharmacists in accordance with the actual needs of the masses of scientific and rational drug purchase and dispensing, not to grab drugs, drug hoarding, to provide the masses with diversified drug selection program recommendations.

Fifth, drug retail, medical device business enterprises and the use of units to strengthen legal awareness and internal management, to avoid epidemic prevention drugs and new coronavirus antigen detection reagents into illegal channels.

Sixth, the use of drugs and medical devices units to ensure that the purchase of drugs and medical devices from qualified drug and medical device manufacturers and operators, and not to use drugs and medical devices without qualified documents, expired, expired.

Welcome the community and the general public to actively participate in the supervision, through 12345 and other complaint reporting channels to reflect the problem. The sale of fake and inferior, expired drugs and medical devices, large price increases, collusion price increases, price increases in disguise and other illegal acts, market supervision departments will be seriously dealt with, found together, disposed of together, exposed together, to form a deterrent. Suspected of crime, transferred to the public security organs to pursue criminal responsibility.

Qingdao Municipal Market Supervision Administration

December 18, 2022