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The Ministry of Health will submit a proposal to allow pharmacies to prescribe and sell medicines subject to medical prescription without the intervention of a doctor. The Order of Doctors (OM) considers that the Ministry has no idea of the severity of this proposal, which can undermine public health.
Studuing and “Absolute rejection” – This is the reaction of the Order of Doctors, to the proposal of the Ministry of Health to allow pharmacies prescribe and overcome medicines subject to prescription without the intervention of a doctor.
In the announced Wednesday, the president of OM, Carlos Cortesconsiders that this “measure constitutes an unacceptable affront to the security of patientsthe quality of health care and the basic principle of medicine itself: the rigorous and grounded clinical evaluation made by a doctor. ”
For the OM, It is “irresponsible and irrational” that the prescribing doctor prescriber subject to prescription is replaced by the pharmacist, even in a situation of disease considered seemingly slight.
“Manifesting concern is littlegiven the gravity that the proposal can constitute for health care and public health ”, underlines the president.
Speaking to, Carlos Cortes said the government cannot want to solve NHS problems replacing doctors with other professionals. “We cannot mix everything; We cannot create a national alternative health service, ”he said.
This Tuesday, the Secretary of State for Health ANA PEOPLE He said that the order that creates conditions to assess the possibility of being able to deal with slight situations – giving as an example the example urinary infections. But this example It is easily fallible.
“In fact, it can be a simple urinary infection that is easily treatable, but it can also be something much more complicated. It can be an infection of a kidney, for example. So we can be sure, The patient must be seen by a doctor“Carlos Cortes warned on public radio.
Doctor ≠ Pharmaceutical
The desire to see these situations dealt with by pharmacists – with previously defined protocols – was several times expressed several times by the Pharmacist president.
The Order of Doctors, in turn, recalls that The prescription of medicines is a medical act, which requires precise diagnosis, rigorous clinical evaluation and continuous follow -up of the patient.
“Doctors are properly qualified and formed to make decisions” and ensure that “each prescription is based on scientific evidence and the best clinical practice and not with criteria that have nothing to do with the sole welfare of the patient,” according to the om.
OM requires from the Ministry of Health that “it does not embark on the facilitism and populism that the measures indicate”, indicating that any change to the law should be taken with consideration.
