Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos: una muerte anunciada

Eduardo López A; Germán Ramírez; Antonio Iglesias G

doi:10.22490/24629448.11

National Institute of Medicines and Foods Alertness: an announced death

Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos: una muerte anunciada

Published 2004-12-31

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2004)

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López A, E., Ramírez, G., & Iglesias G, A. (2004). National Institute of Medicines and Foods Alertness: an announced death. NOVA, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.22490/24629448.11

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Eduardo López A

QF Catedrático. Programa de Bacteriología y Laboratorio Clínico. Facultad de Ciencias de la salud. Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca. Ex Jefe División de Control de Medicamentos INS

Germán Ramírez

MD Profesor titular, Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad del Rosario. Ex jefe Sección de Control Biológico INS

Antonio Iglesias G

MD Profesor Titular. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Nacional. Ex Director Instituto Nacional de Salud

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INVIMA

Alertness and control

Medicines

Biological products

The control of medications, waters and biological products ace to function of State one eats making in continuous form from 1919 when the Congress of Colombia creó the Bacteriological and Chemical Laboratory, like to dependence of the National Direction of Hygiene calling it “Official Laboratory of Hygiene.” This function of Surveillance and Control is more efficient when in 1947, the government buys the Laboratory “Samper Martínez” to his founders who carried out these controls to his biological products that elaborated in that laboratory. A recount is made the Ministry of Health that has had several names then already in 1920 called himself later Ministry working Hygiene and Social Prevention and 80 years of how it is denominated Ministry of the Social Protection. This Ministry has always worried to exercise the surveillance and control to the medications and allowances, activity that has executed in dispersed form to inclination several institutions what took to consider the creation of an institution of national order that had these functions and it exercised them with more effectiveness. It was born this way the National Institute of Surveillance of Medications and Allowances (INVIMA) created by the Law 100 of December 23 1993 and it began to exercise their functions starting from February of 1995. Ten years after their creation the Government has manifested his intentions of passing his functions to the National Superintendence of Health. Lastly it is questioned if the Government’s attitude is due to a weakness in the operation of this institution or to that has not completed with the functions that were assigned him. Situation that he/she would go in the detriment of the insurance of the quality of the medications and allowances, as fundamental elements in the well-being and the consumer’s health.

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