The Health Commission, chaired by deputy Emmanuel Reyes Carmona belonging to the Morena party, approved four opinions that reform various articles of the General law of healthon medications, breast milk donation, rare diseases and private medical services.
It was endorsed with 27 votes in favor, one against and one abstention, reform article 464 Ter of the General Health Law.
The above is in order to increase the sanctions established in said article and include expired medicines and electronic commerce platforms. and social networks.
With this modification it is stipulated that whoever sells or offers for sale, trades, distributes or transports medicines, drugs, raw materials or additives that are falsified, altered, contaminated or adulterated, “expired or whose useful life has ended” whether in establishments, ” as well as on the Internet through electronic commerce platforms and social networks”, or in any other place, or sell or offer for sale, trade, distribute or transport materials for packaging or packaging of medicines, pharmaceuticals, raw materials or additives, his legends, information that contains numbers or identification keys, which are falsified, altered or adulterated, a penalty of “three to 15 years in prison” and a fine of twenty thousand to fifty thousand days of minimum wage will be imposed.
The same penalty is proposed to anyone who sells, offers for sale or trades medical samples, whether in establishments, via the Internet or anywhere else.
The ruling also increases the prison sentence, which is currently from three to 15 years, to apply from five to 20 years in prison to anyone who adulterates, falsifies, contaminates, alters or allows the adulteration, falsification, contamination or alterations of medications, drugs . , raw materials or additives, of its final packaging for human use or consumption or manufactures them without the registrations, licenses or authorizations established by law.
Likewise, the penalty will increase for anyone who falsifies or adulterates or allows the adulteration or falsification of material for packaging or packaging of medicines, labeling, its legends, the information it contains or its identification numbers or keys; goes from one to nine years in prison to a sentence of three to 15 years.
Reform on breast milk donation approved
Another opinion is to the minute that adds a section II Ter to article 64 of the General Health Law, to establish thatThe Ministry of Health will promote permanent dissemination, education and promotion actions for breast milk donation and breast milk bank services among the population.
The document, approved unanimously by 29 votes, mentions that despite the efforts made in legislative matters, breastfeeding rates remain low due to the different existing barriers that make it difficult to carry out this practice exclusively up to six months and continuously. at leastup to 24 months of age, which not only affects the health and development of children, but also the impossibility of the country meeting the breastfeeding goals set for 2025 at the World Health Assembly.
Representative Mariana Nassar Piñeyro (PRI) welcomed the approval of the ruling because she considered the fact that only 34 percent of children from zero to five months are breastfed to be alarming. “Everything that has to do with these initiatives and public policies is worth adding and I hope they can increase.” She described it as wise to have incorporated permanent actions regarding breastfeeding.
After the blended meeting, the endorsed opinions were sent to the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Deputies for the corresponding effects.
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