ALGIERS – Pharmacy experts called on Saturday in Algiers for the compliance and adaptation of laws on medical devices to developments in the two health and pharmaceutical sectors, “to protect the patient and meet his needs” .
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As such, the expert and consultant in medical devices at the Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry, Fouzia Haroui underlined, during a training meeting, the need to ensure compliance and adaptation of laws relating to medical devices. to developments in the two health and pharmaceutical sectors, in particular with regard to the epidemiological situation marked by the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to improve the national health system and meet the needs of the patient “.
The objective of this meeting, she adds, being to put into force the laws relating to medical devices provided for in the 2018 health law and those promulgated by the public authorities coinciding with the appearance of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), and this in order to meet the needs of citizens in terms of these devices.
She also specified that all the establishments present at this meeting “will benefit from the orientation in order to inquire about the means relating to the accompaniment of use of these devices, in accordance with the laws in force, in order to benefit from the ‘homologation, registration and compliance’.
He added that the public authorities “have previously approved the importation of these medical devices. However, the pharmaceutical products market has evolved in recent years thanks to the appearance of several local producers of test strips. blood sugar, certain devices relating to rapid analyzes, bibs and gloves, in response to the health crisis marked by the spread of the Coronavirus, as well as other devices used in several medical specialties, which requires, she underlines , support for the adaptation and compliance of laws “.
For her part, the director of pharmacy and medical devices at the Ministry of Health, Dr Soumia Benhamida referred to medical devices, locally produced and those imported, recalling that the public authorities had put in place, in response to the spread of Covid-19, a green corridor to facilitate the importation of these devices, in order to meet the requirements of the epidemiological situation.
This operation was accompanied by the enactment of the necessary legislative texts, with the unification of legal measures in terms of registration and at the Customs level, the official said, adding that the local producer has obtained compliance “does not part of the prerogatives of the ministry, but that it is the responsibility of international suppliers to do so “.
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