7th #MedSafetyWeek has just started! From today until the end of the week we will be among 82 countries that participate in the campaign organized through social networks and led by WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring – Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC). The campaign is supported by members of Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) and International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA). Theme of this year’s campaign is “How patients and healthcare professionals make safety work” and it will focus on how important role of patients and healthcare professionals is for safe use of medicines.
Medicines are safe and effective, however, in some patients they can cause adverse reactions. Competent regulatory institutions in the field of medicines, in Montenegro it is CInMED, establish a system for continuous monitoring of medicines safety, with the aim to collect new information on adverse reactions that are already known and also detect entirely new ones in a timely manner.
Adverse reactions reporting system (Reporting scheme), established by CInMED, detects, collects, analyzes reports of suspected adverse reactions, with the aim of preventing their occurrence in other patients.
Every report submitted by a patient, or a healthcare professional is significant, as it contributes to creating a real picture of safety and efficacy of the medicine. If necessary, in order to protect patients, CInMED implements adequate regulatory measures that can contribute to improvement of prescribing practices and better outcome of treatments.
We hope that this campaign will encourage everyone to report suspected adverse reactions, as by doing so, they contribute to expansion of knowledge about medicines, which, in the end, makes them safer for all of us.
Detailed information on how to report a suspected adverse reaction is available in the section Pharmacovigilance/How to report an adverse reactions to medicines.
Materials used in the campaign are available on CInMED Instagram account and Youtube channel.
