The has asked Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for more time to issue circulation numbers for certain medical equipment (categories B, C, D) by January 1. (Photo: thanhnien.vn)give it more time to issue circulation numbers
for certain medical equipment (categories B, C, D) by January 1.
The information was released by Nguyen Minh Tuan, Director of
the ministry’s Medical Equipment and Construction Department.
On May 15 last year, the Government promulgated Decree
36/2016/NĐ-CP about managing medical equipment, under which, equipment will be
classified into four categories, A, B, C, D based on its level of risk and
managed by circulation numbers. Medical equipment type A is the least
dangerous, while type D is the most dangerous.
The ministry set up guidance documents and software to
receive information about the circulation of medical equipment.
However, several difficulties occurred. One was that the
ministry could not connect online administrative services about medical
equipment circulation with the national portal that had been agreed with the
.
Besides, on October 11, the ministry received a letter from
the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam saying that it could not complete
the work in time because there were too many documents.
The ministry then asked the Government for permission to
reduce the deadline for the work.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
