Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan Requests Relevant Ministries to Review Imports of Some Medical Chemicals After Finding Local Drug Production Locations
(Phnom Penh): Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan, Chairman of the National Authority for Combating Drugs, requested all relevant ministries to review the import of some medical chemicals imported into Cambodia and can be processed into drugs recently. Authorities searched a local drug production site.
Speaking to the media after a meeting on strengthening the inter-ministerial mechanism for drug control in the Kingdom of Cambodia this morning, January 5, 2022 at the Office of the Council of Ministers, Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan said that now. As a result, drug dealers and producers have shifted from transporting drugs from one region to another or from one country to another in the region for easier distribution.
On that occasion, the Deputy Prime Minister said that while the drug traffickers and producers change the production direction in such places is due to the global Kovid 19 crisis, which makes the transport of goods or drugs. Tight restrictions on the border, both land, navy and air.
In relation to this new development situation, Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan requested the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation and all relevant ministries to increase control over medical products such as chemicals and some medicines imported from abroad. Cambodia to be more effective to prevent Cambodia from becoming a major target of drug production.
With appreciation and thanks to the ministries and institutions that have shown their efforts to participate in drug control, Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan continued to set out some guidelines and urged to plan as soon as possible. Highlighting the work of villages, communes, sangkats, drug-free work, inspection of chemical compounds in relevant locations, money laundering and financial sources related to major drug cases, and preparation of legal documents and dissemination related to mechanisms, structures, conditions. To stakeholders, especially factories, enterprises that use chemicals, etc.
According to Dr. O Vandin, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Health has been working closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other relevant institutions abroad to exchange information on drug control chemicals. To control the import of chemicals to produce medicine in Cambodia, while drugs are also an important part of use in the medical field in the country to treat patients.
Regarding the permission for factories to import pharmaceutical ingredients, only 10 percent of the factories are capable of producing medicines, while the remaining 90 percent are ready-made medicines, he said. Country. At the same time, for factories that are licensed by the Ministry, the professional officers have the strictest control over both the import and production of medicines before allowing the owners and distributors of the requested drugs to sell on the market.
Please be informed that at the end of 2021, the specialized police force of the General Commission of the National Police dismantled a large-scale drug processing case in which the reserve criminals successfully exported and reached the seizure of drugs. A total of more than 2 tons of ketamine (powder K) at Xin Yinfeng (Cambodia) Industry Co., Ltd. is located in Dambang Venh village, Sangke Satop commune, Oral district, Kampong Speu province. 165 grams and a large number of machinery and equipment for the production and processing of drugs.
According to the report of the National Authority for Combating Drugs for the first nine months of 2021, Cambodia imported a total of more than 23,016 tons of related substances.
