Do not prescribe dietary supplements

The Department of Food Safety (Ministry of Health) has sent an official dispatch to its affiliated units and the Departments of Health of provinces and centrally run cities requesting these units to direct hospitals and prescribers not to prescribe functional foods in patient prescriptions.

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This is a directive issued after the Food Safety Department received many complaints from patients about doctors arbitrarily prescribing functional foods in prescriptions.

This has been happening for many years, not only in hospitals, but also in private clinics, when prescribing medicine, doctors often prescribe 1-2 types of functional foods, such as: Children will be prescribed functional foods containing vitamins, zinc, iron, probiotics; eye patients will be prescribed functional foods containing vitamins A, D...

According to giaothongvantai.com.vn