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El Salvador Sets Up New Regulatory Body To Oversee Medicines & Devices

 
• By Francesca Bruce

El Salvador has approved a new law that will establish a new regulatory body responsible for authorizing medicines and setting prices.

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El Salvador Strengthens Regulatory environment for medicines • Source: Shutterstock

El Salvador is to create the Superintendency for Health Regulation (SHR), a new regulatory body that will authorize medicines and medical devices, grant export and import licenses and set medicine prices. The move is expected to strengthen the national health system and protect patients, as well as make El Salvador a more competitive pharmaceutical market.

Earlier this month, the country’s legislative assembly passed the Health Regulation Superintendency bill, which will establish the new entity

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