News on safe medication use

Hebei

On May 24, 2010, the "Safe Medication, Pay Attention to Rural Areas" rural film screening was hosted by the Hebei Provincial Food and Drug Administration and the Hebei Provincial Radio, Film and Television Bureau. The launch ceremony for promoting Hebei was held in Xibaipo, kicking off the rural film screening public welfare campaign of "Safe Medication Use in Rural Areas" in Hebei Province.

The "Safe Medication, Pay Attention to Rural Areas" rural film screening public welfare campaign is jointly organized and carried out nationwide by the State Food and Drug Administration and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The State Food and Drug Administration specially produced the "What You Should Know About Taking Medicines" promotional video on safe medication use, relying on the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to send movies to the countryside, and arranged them in rural areas of 15 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country, including Hebei Province. 30,000 screenings, including 2,000 screenings in Hebei Province, allowing farmers to share the excellent film culture and learn basic common sense about safe and rational drug use.

Jiangsu

On the afternoon of May 23, 2010, the launching ceremony of the second Jiangsu Province Safe Medication Publicity Week 2010 was held grandly at the Shanxi Road Square in Nanjing. It was the first day of the week. The second Safe Medication Promotion Week officially kicked off.

According to authoritative statistics, mine accidents kill about 10,000 people and traffic accidents kill about 100,000 people in my country every year, but nearly 240,000 people die due to adverse drug reactions! Among them, more than 40,000 children suffer from deafness every year due to the abuse of antibiotics alone! Medication safety is no longer just a slogan, but a livelihood safety issue that is increasingly attracting the attention of the whole society.

At the same time, this year’s World Expo will be held in Shanghai, lasting for half a year. It is expected that 70 million domestic visitors and 3.5 million international friends will gather in Shanghai. There is no doubt that this international event will lead to a rapid "heating up" of tourism in Jiangsu, which is adjacent to Shanghai. Nanjing City predicts that 30% of Chinese and foreign tourists participating in the World Expo will visit Nanjing.

In order to better protect people's livelihood and welcome the World Expo, Jiangsu Pharmacists Association and Nanjing Sinopharm Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., under the guidance of Nanjing Municipal Health Bureau, Food and Drug Administration, Industry and Commerce Administration, and Quality Supervision Administration, organized This publicity week event with the theme of safe medication use. This safe medication publicity week starts on May 23 and will last until May 30. The purpose is to strengthen the awareness of safe medication in the whole society, improve the level of safe medication, and promote social harmony and civilization; the activities will focus on the safe medication use of the floating population. , medication safety for middle-aged and elderly people and safe medication for children.

At the launch ceremony, provincial and municipal leaders in charge of health, drug administration, industry and commerce, and quality inspection departments as well as leaders of the Provincial Pharmacists Association came to the event in person and made important speeches for this event, revealing the The importance of promoting safe medication use is announced and the event is officially launched!

During the half-day square event, the host and the audience had a lively interactive Q&A session on the issue of safe medication; more than 20 pharmacists came to the scene to provide on-site information to the audience who had questions. Consultation;

In conjunction with this launch ceremony, there will be a series of safe medication promotion activities. Including: Sino-US Pharmacist Summit Forum, hundreds of safe medication lectures in community activities, expired drug recycling activities, media "Safe Medication Awareness Week Series Knowledge Lectures" column activities, etc. Among them, 100 lectures into community activities will organize 100 community lectures on safe drug use in 13 cities in Jiangsu Province, as well as Fuzhou and Hefei. At the same time, some medicines or health products are on sale. People who have questions about safe medication can also call the "Safe Medication Awareness Week Hotline" 4008861900 to ask about safe medication.

As the organizer of this event, the Jiangsu Pharmacists Association is the only professional association of pharmacists in the country. 6,000 practicing pharmacists actively participated in the event and provided authoritative professional knowledge popularization and work guidance.

Guangzhou

Recently, " The launching ceremony of the "Healthy Welcome to the Asian Games, Safe Medication Use in the Community" and the "Never Expired" household expired drug recycling activities were held in Guangzhou. Chen Dewei, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Food and Drug Administration, and others attended the launching ceremony.

Creating an environment for safe and rational drug use is a long-term and arduous systematic project. In addition to the unshirkable responsibilities of government departments, it also requires the joint attention and participation of enterprises, medical institutions and the general public.

The Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration stated that it hopes that through household expired drug recycling activities, the public will have a clearer understanding of safe and rational drug use, thereby further enhancing awareness of safe and rational drug use, and forming good drug usage habits and drug use. consumption concept.

At the launch ceremony, some expired drugs recovered in 2009 were sealed on site and will be disposed of harmlessly under the supervision of law enforcement officers. On November 10, 2008, the State Food and Drug Administration launched a publicity month with the theme of "Safe Medication, Healthy Accompanying" in Beijing, requiring all localities to vigorously publicize national drug regulatory policies and measures and relevant laws and regulations through various forms starting from the 10th. Further popularize drug safety knowledge to the public and improve the public's awareness and level of safe and rational drug use.

According to reports, during the event, local food and drug regulatory authorities will carry out science popularization activities by organizing experts and volunteers to go into communities, schools, and villages; through the establishment of "Safe Medication· "Healthy Together" popular science promotion column, broadcast public service advertisements on safe medication and TV special films, etc., to create a good atmosphere of safe medication and cherishing health in the whole society.

The State Food and Drug Administration hired Olympic champion Yang Yang and CCTV host Zhao Pu as "voluntary drug safety promoters" at the launch ceremony that day.

State Food and Drug Administration spokesperson Yan Jiangying said that the bureau will have more substantive contact with the two voluntary propagandists in the next step, and will conduct a series of publicity activities and build a team of experts to make safety Medication is closer to the public.