National Drug Policy Draft To Be Hand Over To The Health Minister On 19th

The much waited  Draft of National Drug Policy is due to handover to the Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena on 19th of July as the National Drugs,Cosmetics and Devices Draft according to the well informed sources.

The Specialist Committee which drafted the National Drug Policy scheduled to meet for the last time on 19th of July and review the draft before handing over it to the Minister on the same day.To make the Draft in to a law the Minister should have present it to the Cabinet and after the Cabinet Approval need  to send it to Parliamentary Advisory Committee and later to the Parliament for the approval.


It will take few months to complete this procedure to complete according to the Health Ministry Sources.However few months back the Health Minister has announced that the National Drug Policy will be implemented in July this year.