Can I recycle the idle and expired medicine in the home?The Weijian Department responded

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client September 19 (Reporter Deng Xiaolong) Is there any surplus of medicines prescribed by the hospital, can it be returned or paid for it? Recently, some citizens consulted the matter through Wuhan City's message board. A reporter from the Yangtze River Daily found that many residents had encountered similar problems. In this regard, some citizens suggested that a unified recycling point can be set up?

On the 19th, the reporter contacted the comments citizen. According to him, he took medical treatment at Tongji Hospital in June this year and followed the doctor to buy medicine. After taking about one -third of the medicine, he felt that his body was significantly improved, and the medicine was discontinued. "The rest of the medicine has not been opened yet. Can I retire the medicine, or where can I recycle it?" The citizen said that he also tried to search for second -hand trading platforms such as "idle fish", but I learned that individuals cannot perform medicines. Transaction.

Alipay scanning code can be traced back to the source of the drug and the validity period.

Recently, when the citizen Ms. Li sorted out the Chinese medicine box, she found that many boxes of medicines have expired. "Most of them are cold medicines and cough medicines that children have not taken when they are sick. "At the moment, like Ms. Li, many people will have some standing medicines to prevent from time to time. Sometimes the pharmaceutical expires, what should I do? The reporter found that the citizens who consulted such issues were not individual. Many citizens suggested setting up expired drugs for centralized recycling points.

An industry insider introduced that in my country's "National Dangerous Waste List" (2021 edition), waste drugs and drugs are hazardous waste, including the failure and metamorphic chemicals and biological products produced in the process of sales and use. According to the "Administrative Measures for the Domestic Waste Classification of Wuhan City", the family source hazardous waste in the "National Hazardous Waste List" is harmful garbage. Therefore, expired medicines and their packaging should be recovered by harmful domestic waste. Randomly disposing of expired medicines may pollute water sources and soil, which will cause harm to the ecological environment; there are also some illegal vendors who specialize in acquiring expired medicines, and re -flow to the market after "renovation processing".

The reporter searched and found that before Alipay had opened an activity window, residents could use the 20 -bit trace code at the beginning of the "8" on the Alipay scanned drug box, and found the "expired medicine recycling" entrance on the detailed page, and then fill in the address. , Contact information and other information, you can make a click -through courier brother to recover. The event covers 28 domestic key cities, including Wuhan. The reporter opened Alipay and tried to find that the scanning medicine box could still trace the source and query the validity period, but no "expired medicine recovery" entrance can no longer be seen.

On the afternoon of the 19th, the reporter randomly visited a number of chain housing in Wuhan and asked if the well -expired medicines could be recycled by the home. The salesperson said that "there is no business."

In response to the issues reported by the comments citizens, the reporter called the Health Bureau of Laoukou District. According to the staff, medicines are different from ordinary goods, and in most cases, they cannot be "returned" because of the safety of medication. "If some citizens think that the medicine is prescribed too much, they can negotiate at the hospital's prescriptions within 14 days after prescribing the medicine. For consultation, they can retreat. But usually, doctors decide the dosage according to the diagnosis of the condition and will not prescribe more. "

[Edit: Deng La Xiu]

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