Approval of OTC teleconference bending machine project

to new government regulatory innovation policy

Moon's government also tried this project three times, but failed to enforce it due to 'public mask debt to pharmacists'

Yoon's government, which has no debt to the pharmaceutical society, approved the OTC teleconference bending machine project. The pharmacists' open-air meeting also became useless

OTC teleconference bending machine issue, which has been on hold for 10 years, has secured a bridgehead for entering the market under the new government deregulation stance.

 

The Ministry of Science and ICT held an ICT regulatory sandbox review committee on the 20th and approved the OTC teleconference bending machine based on the MOHW's conditional acceptance opinion as an empirical special project.

 

The OTC teleconference bending machine has long been an issue.

 

When the issue of selling OTC at supermarkets occurred in 2012, the Gyeonggi Pharmaceutical Association voluntarily discussed the introduction of the OTC teleconference bending machine in the name of preventing it.

 

Since then, in 2016, during Park government, the "Amendment to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act" to introduce the OTC teleconference bending machine was pushed in the form of government legislation, but pharmacists opposed it.

 

As the amendment to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act was automatically scrapped at the end of the term of the National Assembly, it was a good opportunity for OTC teleconference bending machine companies.

 

This is because of the regulatory sandbox introduced by Moon's government.

 

Regulatory sandboxes are a system that exempts or suspends existing regulations for a certain period of time when new products and services are released in new industries and new technologies.

 

The system was first launched in the UK to foster the fintech industry and was adopted by Moon's government as one of the regulatory reform measures.

 

In the end, the Ministry of Science and ICT held a meeting to allow regulatory sandboxes for OTC teleconference bending machines in 2019, and it was likely to pass.

 

At that time, the Pharmaceutical Association withheld deliberation, but the attempt continued.

 

There was a second attempt to enter the regulatory sandbox in 2020.

 

Moon's government received much help from pharmacists about public masks.

 

It was not easy for Moon's government, which was well aware that innocent pharmacists suffered from public criticism due to public mask issues, to blindly push ahead with video medication machines.

 

According to a statement from the Pharmaceutical Affairs Association at the time, "Pharmacists are doing their best to supply public masks in pharmacies, which has an unprecedented role in supporting the national public health and medical functions." To push ahead with the OTC teleconference bending machine demonstration special, which 80,000 pharmacists across the country oppose, just as they brutally trample on the efforts of these pharmacists, is a one-sided example of administration with no minimum form and common sense." In 2021, the Ministry of Science and Technology tried to deliberate on the OTC teleconference bending machine again, but it was put on hold again and it was handed over to the new government and Choi Kwang-hoon executive.

 

However, Yoon's administration recognized deregulation as the top national task.

 

The new government's economic policy was also focused on regulatory innovation.

 

It was also a negative factor for the pharmaceutical society that Jeon Hye-sook, Kim Sang-hee, and Seo Young-seok, who were former pharmacists, became opposition lawmakers in the ruling party, making it difficult to exert power on the government.

 

On top of that, unlike Moon's government, Yoon's government had no debt to the pharmaceutical society.

 

The MOHW, which was skeptical of the OTC teleconference bending machine, also seems to have been forced to jump on the new government's regulatory innovation stance.

 

On top of that, there is an analysis that the situation in which the MOHW is for nothing and it has also expanded the scope of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

 

In the end, the OTC teleconference bending machine, which had been seeking to enter pharmacies for 10 years, began to enter the long-awaited pharmacy market after meeting the new government's market economy policy, and the pharmacist society, which resisted by even opening-air meeting, fell into despair.

 

The problem is that open-air meeting is the beginning of deregulation.

 

There is a possibility that the expansion of safety emergency medicine items at convenience stores and the permission of non-face-to-face treatment and drug delivery may also be a second open-air meeting.

 

The government has already announced the formation of a task force for regulatory innovation in health care, and two important issues, economic revitalization and national health, have been forced to continue to collide.