48 ORDERS ON PERMISSION OF ADVERTISMENT OF MEDICINE, MEDICAL TECHNIQUES, AND MEDICINAL METHODS UPHOLDED SINCE BEGINNING OF YEAR
Noyan Tapan
Nov 5, 2007
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.