Tangerang Health Office Keeps A CLOSE Eye On Pharmacies Following A 4-drug Circular Permit Which Is Revoked By BPOM

Head of the Health Service, Dr. Dini Anggraeni/ANTARA

The Tangerang City Health Office, Banten, has socialized the quarantine or not selling medicinal products after BPOM released four new drugs whose distribution permits have been revoked. "We have socialized the release to health care facilities, pharmacies and drug stores. We will also comb pharmacies and drug stores through the puskesmas network so that the drugs according to the circular are quarantined, not sold, and returned to distributors," said Head of the Tangerang City Health Office, Dr. Dini Anggraeni in Tangerang, Antara, Friday, November 11. Earlier on Wednesday, the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) released four new drugs whose distribution permits were revoked from two companies, namely PT Ciubros Farma and PT Samco Farma. The drug sirop products of PT Ciubros Farma are Citomol ( fever medicine) in the form of a 60 mL plastic bottle dus packaging cylinder with distribution license numbers DBL9304003837A1 and Citoprim (antibiotics), the form of the suspension of boxes, plastic bottle @60 mL with distribution number DKL9604044633A1. Then the medicinal circop products produced by PT Samco Farma, namely Samcodryl (cough medicine), the preparation of dus packaging sirop, plastic bottles @60 ml and @120 ml with distribution number DTL8821904637A1. Samconal ( fever medicine), the form of dus packaging sirop preparation, plastic bottle @60 ml with distribution license number DBL882219051137A1. "Now, there are 73 drugs whose distribution permits have been revoked by BPOM. We, from the Health Office, will continue to monitor developments related to these sirop drugs, both through BPOM and the Ministry of Health," he said.