Uzbekistan to prohibit the sale of medicines outside pharmacies and their branches

Uzbekistan introduced an administrative and criminal liability for the sale of any medicines outside pharmacies and their branches, Kun.uz correspondent reports referring to a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

This is envisaged by the law “On introducing amendments and addenda to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan aimed at ensuring public security”.

“Article 165-1 of the Administrative code is supplemented with the words “sale of medicines outside pharmacies and their branches”. This gives us the opportunity to penalize the sale of any drugs, even, for example, aspirin, outside these places. A person trading with medicines outside pharmacies will be punished. The fine will be from 50 to 100 times the minimum wage with the confiscation of tools and objects used for offense,” a reporter said.

According to him, this regulation was introduced into the Criminal Code with the amendment of Article 186-3.

Trading drugs outside pharmacies and their branches, committed after applying administrative penalties for the same actions, will be punished with a fine of 100 to 300 times the minimum wage or correctional labor up to 3 years or restriction of freedom from 2 to 5 years or imprisonment up to 5 years.

It turns out that the online business of selling medicines, which has vigorously developed in Uzbekistan today, is also becoming illegal. In social networks, there are groups who sell products by order delivered from abroad.