Drug registration and listing system to be revised

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Minister of Health and Sports G.Shiilegdamba presented his proposal on revising the Drug Registration and Listing System, at the cabinet meeting Wednesday. The proposal offers changes that will ease the registration process. Mr Shiilegdamba wants to register drugs and medicinal products in three types of procedures--direct, accelerated and simple. The direct one will list the proposed medicines in the system within 30 days. Registering will consider a fact that the drug was approved by authorized institution with strict regulations and is included in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s medical directives, taking into account the information provided about the drug by the official website of the WHO. Direct registering will exclude vaccines. The accelerated registering will complete in 60 days, for the drugs that were approved by authorized institution of any member state of the International Drug Control Cooperation and included in the WHO medical directives, thus taking into account the information provided by the official website. Registration for other drugs and medicines will be declared or denied within six months after being proposed. The Minister concluded that the problems faced by healthcare organizations will be reduced through alleviating the registration processes, thus delivering the drugs due time to patients in need.