Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Officials close five illegal pharmacies

Mom Kunthear

Phnom Penh Post

FIVE illegal pharmacies were shut down in Phnom Penh late last month after failing to meet an April 25 deadline to register with the Health Ministry, and a further four are likely to be closed, a health official said after a meeting at City Hall on Monday.

Sok Sokun, director of the Phnom Penh Health Department, said the owners of the nine unlicenced pharmacies were discovered to have been selling fake drugs.

The five pharmacies “were shut down after we filed a complaint late last year asking the municipal court to shut down those illegal pharmacies because they refused to stop selling fake drugs,” he said, and added that he expected that the other four pharmacies would be shut down but did not know when this might happen.

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