The College of Biomedical Informatics at the University organized a workshop on the National Electronic Pharmacological Tracking System.
The workshop, delivered by the lecturer, Ms. Munira Abdul Hamdi, focused on the fact that medicine in the Iraqi market carries many challenges, from the lack of centralization in unifying data, which negatively affects the accuracy of monitoring the quality and safety of medicine, to the increase in rates of smuggling and adulteration of drugs, as well as selling price manipulation, expiration date, and others.
The workshop also discussed these challenges and their negative effects on the health of citizens, and what the National Drug Tracking System Project launched by the Department of Popular Medical Clinics in the Iraqi Ministry of Health offers to address these challenges through this system by providing the QR Code feature as a single visual identity for each medicine box imported or manufactured in Iraq.
The workshop pointed out the strategic objectives and importance that the system provides to the citizens and the government, including providing services to the citizens to know important pharmaceutical information such as the name of the drug – origin – expiration date – manufacturing company – price in Iraqi dinars, in addition to the possibility of submitting reports about (price differences – side effects – differences in pharmaceutical information – drugs of unknown origin).