The Bulgarian Health Ministry will begin Sanctioning Drug Wholesalers due of the Shortage of Medicines
“There are serious gaps in the Specialized Electronic System for the Tracking and Analysis of Medicinal Products (SESPA) that compromise its data, including the ban list for the export of medicines of the Medicines Executive Agency (MEA).” This was found by "Information Service" after an audit ordered by the previous leadership of the Ministry of Health, announced the acting minister Asen Medzhidiev. Despite the identified gaps, no measures have been taken to eliminate them. The only thing that was done by his predecessor Asena Serbezova in this direction was the change of the formula, Medzhidiev pointed out.
Therefore, the Ministry of Health has started mass inspections, as there are already established drug wholesalers who did not correctly submit information to SESPA.
An administrative proceeding has been initiated against them, which may lead to the revocation of their license, Medzhidiev pointed out.
The audit of "Information Service" shows the following gaps in the information system for tracking and analyzing medicines in our country:
- 1. There is no technological tool to limit individual actions in case of non-submission or wrong submission.
- 2. The system does not use a time authentication service, only internal logs are kept without hash and protection.
- 3. The software base that SESPA uses is not licensed. Read More…
