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The Phnom Penh Post reported that nine illegal pharmacies will be faced with a closure because of refusal to stop selling fake medicines across the country. And 100 other unlicensed shops in Phnom Penh will be shut down.
Three-day seminar, funded by French embassy, between five Asian countries – Cambodia, China, Laos, Singapore, and Vietnam – was to discuss regional fight against counterfeit drugs, WHO said that counterfeit drugs in Cambodia have declined from between 10 and 13 percent three years ago to 8 percent in 2009 because of international cooperation Cambodia has, reported VOA.
Health experts said that the crackdown highlights what industry officials have described as long-running problem with counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the Kingdom, including black-market abortion pills, according to the Post.
The Post quoted Sok Sokun, director of the municipal health department, as saying that “we told them many times already to get a license and not to sell counterfeit drugs, but they did not listen to us.”
It is because of the poverty and poor people, illegal medicines subsequently have been imported to Cambodia’s market.
William Mfuko, WHO medical advisor, said that counterfeit medicine could be produced with lack of ingredients, which can cause resistance and death, according to VOA.
According to the city’s counterfeit drugs committee, only half of the country’s estimated 2,000 pharamacies have been registered, officials said in September. In Phnom Penh, the ratio is slightly better: 155 of 527 pharmacies in the capital are unlicensed, reported the Post.
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