48 ORDERS ON PERMISSION OF ADVERTISMENT OF MEDICINE,
MEDICAL TECHNIQUES, AND MEDICINAL METHODS UPHOLDED SINCE
BEGINNING OF YEAR
05-11-2007 13:44:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA Ministry of Health
has upholded 48 out of 97 orders received since the beginning of
the year with regard to giving permission for advertising
medicine, medical techniques or medicinal methods. Thus, only 34
out of 70 orders placed for giving permission for advertising
medicine, 11 out of 19 for advertising medicinal methods, and 3
out of 5 for medical techniques have been upholded.
According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan
correspondent by Suren Krmoyan, the legal advisor to the RA
Minister of Health, mainly the orders not corresponding to the
demands of the RA Law on "Advertisement" have been dismissed.
For example, it was mentioned in some of the placed orders that
the advertised medicine has no side effects. However, according
to the adviser to the Minister, it is not only prohibited by
law, but is also impossible in reality. Suren Krmoyan mentioned
that there have been orders on permission of advertisement of
medicine given by prescription, which have also been dismissed,
since their advertisement is prohibited by law. In addition to
this, there have been cases, when the claim of the law
concerning the main language of advertisement: Armenian, was
neglected. However, as Suren Krmoyan mentioned, other languages
can be used in an advertisment only in parallel with the
Armenian one.
It was also mentioned that the Ministry is conducting a
monitoring for the purpose of revealing cases of violation of
the law: approximately 50 cases of violation have been recorded
so far.