26.09.2023
To the attention of interested persons
The Ministry of Health and the National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices of Romania (NAMMDR) continue to carry out controls at the premises of units authorised to perform activities concerning narcotic and psychotropic medicinal products.
Collaboration with the competent institutions in carrying out the investigation related to the suspicion of crimes of trafficking or illicit consumption of narcotic medicinal products is a priority of the Ministry of Health and its subordinated institutions.
As early as September the 18th this year, NAMMDR inspectors began assessing compliance with the legality of the release of medicinal products containing oxycodone and fentanyl. The inspectors have thus identified more than 500 pharmaceutical units (pharmacies) that carry out operations with these medicinal products. These shall all be inspected over the next period.
The checks will also aim at the supervision and control of the fulfilment of legal procedures regarding the return and destruction of narcotic and psychotropic medicinal products which no longer correspond from a quality viewpoint, whose shelf life has expired or coming from patients who no longer use them.
Moreover, the Ministry of Health, according to the yearly inspection plan, has started inspection actions, prior to the investigation in question and which will continue over the following period. The subject of these inspections shall be expanded, in order to ensure that all stages of the destruction process provided by law are observed.
In the immediate future, the Ministry of Health, together with the NAMMDR and other institutions involved in this field, shall initiate a project to amend the regulatory documents in force, with a view to much stricter regulations regarding activities related to psychotropic and narcotic medicinal products.