Led by Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Xuyen, the council is also tasked with building criteria for medical prescription and primary drug lists used in hospitals, and analysising issues related to drugs and drug treatment, as well as suggesting appropriate solutions in order to promote the safe and reasonable use of medications.
The body also has the task of monitoring errors in treatment and use of drugs; unifying guidelines for treatment for some diseases that involve many different treatment methods; and providing guidelines to monitor drug resistance.
