The Ministry of Health ordered that Medical prescriptions made on paper and sent via the web, mail or WhatsApp to request treatment at pharmacies will no longer be validfrom resolution 3622/2022 published this Monday in the Official Gazette.
The document repealed resolution No. 696/20 of March 31, 2020, which enabled the presentation at the pharmacy of prescriptions in text message or message format. “through messaging applications via web, mail or fax”indicated the text.
Due to the expansion of the health emergency established by Law No. 27,541, modifications were authorized in the prescription and dispensing of psychotropic or other medications for the care of chronic and possibly acute pathologies while the emergency lasts.
In this way, the repealed resolution allowed the medical prescription to be presented at the pharmacy “so that the patient does not have to go to the health center or hospital to renew the prescription for chronic medications and/or any other medication that they regularly use “.
The text considered that, based on the advance in vaccination coverage, “the incidence of severe illness and mortality from COVID-19 has been considerably reduced, regardless of the circulating variant.”
Likewise, the impact of the coronavirus in 2022 “occurs within the framework of a population with high vaccination coverage”, and where “the occupation of intensive care beds by COVID-19, all the provinces are below 78% of occupation”.
In relation to vaccination coverage, the Bulletin stated that, from the beginning of the national vaccination campaign for COVID-19 until December 19, 2022, “coverage of 82% was achieved in the general population and 86.1% in older than 3 years with primary scheme”.
