The Ministry of Health (Minsa), through the National Directorate of Pharmacy and Drugs, the entity responsible for supervising that the analysis, surveillance and quality control of medicines and other products for human health, as well as the establishments that are dedicated to the production, distribution and custody of the same, comply with the established quality standards, reminds the pharmaceutical establishments that they are responsible for everything related to the management, conservation and disposal of medicines.
Ensuring public health and based on current national and international health standards and regulations, permanently, so that the population acquires and uses safe and effective products, it indicates that both Law 1 of January 10, 2001 and its due regulation, indicate that pharmaceutical establishments must comply with Good Manufacturing, Storage, Transportation and Dispensing Practices.
Similarly, the Ministry of Pharmacy and Drugs Directorate, has among its functions to monitor the faithful compliance with the procedure of these premises whose storage areas must be organized, identified, clean, delimited, dry and within the limits of temperature and humidity. relative stipulated by the manufacturing laboratory for finished products.
For this reason, the Minsa reminds the managers of pharmaceutical establishments that they are responsible for ensuring cleanliness, that there is no shedding of dust, controlling and documenting the temperature and humidity in a way that does not negatively affect, directly or indirectly, the medicines and other human health products during storage, so they should be checked and monitored regularly.
