The Parliamentary Health Committee revealed a government movement to control the treatment file, con

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[size=52]Government movement to control smuggled medicines and reform the health system[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Firas Adnan[/size]
[size=45]The Parliamentary Health Committee revealed a government movement to control the treatment file, confirming that there is an effort to reduce the percentage of smuggled medicines, calling for updating the mechanisms used by the relevant ministries in this regard.[/size]
[size=45]"All international reports indicate that 70% of the drugs entering Iraq are outside the examination and are not officially registered," Majid Shankali, a member of the committee's vice-chairman, said.[/size]
[size=45]Shankali, a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, added, "These drugs are smuggled and of unknown origin, and it is not known the extent of their powers for human use."[/size]
[size=45]And he pointed out, "The biggest task in this aspect lies with the Iraqi Ministry of Health," noting that "a country the size of Iraq, which has a population of 42 million people, is not reasonable to have a single repository for examination and drug control."[/size]
[size=45]Shankali stressed, "The need to create a laboratory to examine medicines entering Iraq in every governorate, as is the case with regard to border crossings," revealing "government promises in this regard, even if it requires the use of investment companies in order to facilitate the entry and registration of medicines."[/size]
[size=45]And he stated, “Many companies do not follow the official contexts in introducing medicines; Because the process is riddled with difficulties, obstacles and commissions that are paid, and therefore smuggling is resorted to.[/size]
[size=45]Shankali pointed out that "the House of Representatives has diagnosed many suspicions about the official institutions responsible for marketing medicines, and there has been a change in their management," calling on "the Minister of Health, Saleh al-Hasnawi, to scrutinize all contracts concluded since 2017, especially those concluded during the Corona pandemic because they are It was out of control and without passing the instructions for regulating government contracts.[/size]
[size=45]And he talked about “the need for the Parliamentary Health Committee to conduct an investigation into everything that happened,” stressing that “an investigation had taken place in the purchase of (CiBAP) respirators, which indicated that there was a waste estimated at 30 billion dinars.”[/size]
[size=45]Shankali stressed that “a major problem occurred in the file of purchasing vaccines,” noting that “the former Minister of Health Alaa Alwan resigned from his post after parties wanted to impose large sums on him for purchasing vaccines, so the real amount was $14 million, while those parties were You want to import it for $90 million.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "The presence of influential personalities, political blocs, and armed factions benefiting financially from the drug file," stressing that "drugs that have not been examined cannot be judged, so it cannot be said that all of them are not fit for consumption, without making sure of that."[/size]
[size=45]Shankali called for a “new drug policy with the trend towards industrialization instead of resorting to importing from abroad and benefiting from the opening of pharmaceutical factories in Iraq, which is a recent experience,” stressing that “the Minister of Health promised us earlier facilities in partnership operations with foreign companies to support the drug file.” and provide it.”[/size]
[size=45]He noted, to "major legislative problems afflicting the health file in Iraq, the most prominent of which is the antiquity of the laws in which the Ministry operates, as they date back to the eighties of the last century," noting that "the health system needs to be modernized in its entirety in all its legal, administrative and technical aspects."[/size]
[size=45]And Shinkali went on to say, "A number of measures will be taken to reduce the proportion of smuggled and unregistered medicines, to make them 50% during the current year, at least."[/size]
[size=45]And the British (Gatham House) Institute had revealed in its translation report (Al-Mada), that among “the total number of medicines that reach people, only 30% of them are considered suitable for consumption, while the rest is likely to be counterfeit or expired.”[/size]
[size=45]The report emphasized that “some of the medicines have expired even before they reach the pharmacy, and this means that most of the available medicines are ineffective at best and at worst dangerous to health.”[/size]
[size=45]He quotes a former health minister as saying, “The chain of the network of influential parties responsible for supplying these drugs makes profits between 5 to 7 billion dollars annually.”[/size]
[size=45]The report finds, "The difficulty of Iraqi citizens obtaining the medicines they need not only endangers their lives, but also undermines their confidence in the health authorities, and during the Corona epidemic, the consequences of this deadly system were imposed on the lives of many people."[/size]
[size=45]And he talks about "the stages of the arrival of the medicine since its arrival at the port in Basra, and then it travels a distance of 530 km to reach Baghdad."[/size]
[size=45]The report emphasized that "the chain of stages includes several continuous circles consisting of doctors, pharmacists, political parties, armed groups and businessmen, and the process begins in the first place from behind the borders of Iraq and causes the death of hundreds of people annually.[/size]
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