TIME FOR SELLING EXPIRED MEDICINE PASSED, DEPUTY HEALTH MINISTER SAYS

There are many cases of drug poisoning in recent reports of the Armenian Rescue Services. Why is that so? Is it possible that the pharmacies sell expired medicine? Tatul Hakobyan, deputy health minister, excluded that possibility saying, “times for selling expired medicine have passed.” Hakobyan warned the media against disseminating such information.

In the words of Hakobyan, they are making regular inspection at the pharmacies to check their compliances with the standards. In case of violations of sanitary norms, the pharmacies are fined.

The deputy minister said they have found no cases of “non-registered” drugs in the pharmacies, however, he did not exclude such possibilities.