Por: Roxana Bermúdez

The Pharmacy Directorate attached to the National Health Regulation Authority (ANRS) has issued Circular MS-ANRS-DF-KVDM-1634-05-2023, with the objective of making known the update of the over-the-counter listing, which provides:

  1. Issuance of administrative resolution No. 004-2023, containing an update of the over-the-counter drug list 2023.
  2. Assignment of the pharmacy management to make the administrative resolution known to users and interested parties.
  3. The pharmacists in charge of carrying out sanitary registration procedures, renewals, and post-registration changes of pharmaceutical categories, natural and supplements, must carry out the post-registration changes in the online Karplus system, based on the new OTC 2023 list, complying with the established requirements (modification change of sales modality).
  4. The administrative resolution No. 004-2023, will be published on the Ministry of Health website.
  5. The aforementioned resolution will come into force as of its signature (10/05/2023).