KABUL (MoPH) on Sunday formally launched “National Medical Products Authority (NMPA)” to help prevent expired medicines from being imported to the country.
Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz said the authority had been constituted in to halt imports of low quality drugs, encourage domestically produced medicines and stop expired drug entry into the country.
He said until now different authorities had been functioning to monitor low quality drugs, but in future the NMPA would be a responsible platform dealing with issues related to expired and unhealthy drugs . . .
