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Hospitals and pharmacies urged to report adverse drug reactions to ministry
DUBAI - The Health Ministry has asked all public and private health facilities, including pharmacies, to compulsorily report adverse drug reactions.
The Medical Practices and Licensing Sector in the Ministry of Health recently issued a circular to all medical districts, hospitals, public and private centres, doctors, pharmacists, nurses and pharmacy owners to ensure that they report side effects caused by any drugs and medical errors. The ministry has also asked the public to report adverse reactions proactively.
Currently, in pharmacies, drug reactions are only known if the patient complains about a drug sold by a pharmacist over the counter. However, there is no system whereby a pharmacist can report this event to the ministry. Hospitals, too, record errors and reactions but do not report them to the ministry.
An adverse reaction is a harmful or an unintended response to drugs, whereas a medical error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate effects while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, patient or consumer.
The medical error can be either due to human or system error.
“The purpose of the system is to maintain the welfare and health of the society and stay aware of any side effects or unexpected complications of any registered pharmaceutical drug in the UAE,” said Dr Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary for Medical Practices and Licensing at the ministry.
He mentioned that a form has been prepared by the pharmacovigilance higher committee making it easy for all districts to report.
“The form must be filled out by health care practitioners and sent to the pharmaceutical and registration administration,” he said. “A team from the pharmaceutical and registration administration will study and analyse the data and take the required measures,” added Dr Amiri.
According to recent statistics, as many as 825 patients had adverse reactions to drugs prescribed by physicians last year while 555 cases of medical errors were reported to the Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HAAD). Adverse reactions were most common with the use of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs.
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