Split small portions, quality assurance, stable supply - Changsha, Hunan Province to promote the sale of drugs to ease the difficulties of the masses to buy drugs

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“This is the amount for one person, take it after the body temperature exceeds 38.5℃, and use the medicine reasonably according to the instructions.” In a large chain drugstore on Xiangya Road, Kaifu District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, pharmacist Kong Xiangyan was introducing the precautions for medication to customers after dividing 6 ibuprofen tablets into change bags.

In a chain of pharmacies in Changsha City, Hunan Province, people are lining up to buy medicines sold in bulk.

Recently, in order to further promote the orderly supply of epidemic-related drugs and expand the coverage of drugs as far as possible to alleviate the people’s difficulties in purchasing drugs, the Changsha Municipal Administration of Market Supervision issued a notice to encourage the city’s drug retail stores to adopt the sales of drugs that meet the requirements of splitting and selling under the premise of ensuring the quality of drugs.

On December 21, the large chain drugstore took the lead in Changsha City to carry out drug split sales. “The supply of relevant drugs in the stores is basically guaranteed, and the adoption of split-zero sales can guide the general public to purchase drugs rationally according to their needs, so that more people can use the drugs in a timely manner.” The person in charge of the pharmacy Peng Jian told reporters, to 100 tablets of ibuprofen, for example, now split sales, according to the amount of 6 tablets per person, you can meet the needs of 16 people with drugs.

At the counter of the pharmacy’s fractional sales, the reporter saw that the licensed pharmacist would also indicate the drug name, lot number, expiration date and other relevant information on each fractional sales bag after the drug was completed, along with a copy of the drug instructions to remind consumers to use the drug rationally and symptomatically.

“Previously, buy a whole box of drugs to buy, but may not use up the expiry date, split sales can avoid waste.” Ms. Long, a citizen of Changsha who just finished purchasing the medicine, told reporters that she queued for more than 10 minutes today to buy 18 ibuprofen tablets, “5 cents a tablet, which cost only 90 cents, very cheap.”

The posters in a chain of pharmacies in Changsha, Hunan Province, prompted the public to grade the fever and use the medicine reasonably.

The reporter saw in the pharmacy, in addition to ibuprofen, compound aminophenalkylamine tablets, cold and flu granules and other drugs are also being split sales. “Before splitting, licensed pharmacists will carefully sterilize the splitting tools, and then splitting to ensure that the drugs are not contaminated, while the stores strictly enter the number of splitting into the system and do a good job of splitting sales records to ensure that the sales of splitting drugs are carried out in an orderly manner.” Peng Jian said.

Changsha Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, Deputy Director of the Drug Distribution Department Zeng Longhua said, to encourage the city’s drug retail stores will be split sales of drugs after the notice issued, many pharmacies responded positively, to a certain extent to alleviate the current situation of the supply of relevant drugs, to meet the needs of the general public with drugs. The next step will be to strengthen the supervision of the split sales of drugs, to ensure the quality and safety of the split sales of drugs, and at the same time will closely communicate and collaborate with relevant departments to ensure a stable supply of epidemic-related drugs in the market.