Health Safety

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Medicines have brought great benefit to life. Many are life-saving and most help people to lead a normal life. However, no medicine is 100% safe. The manufacture of medicines is a complex business and we never know all the effects of a drug on the body. There is always a risk that medicines will cause unrecognized side-effects or that there may be a potentially dangerous defect in the product itself. Furthermore, there can be mix-ups in the prescribing and dispensing of medicines. The Department of Drug Control has many activities designed to maximize drug safety in the UAE. In addition to the Medicine Information activities, the department encourages all health professionals to report adverse reactions and quality defects. By reporting these events we can warn other people to avoid the problem and by carefully studying these events we can help to prevent them happening again. This way we can all help to increase the safety of medicines. Learn more by visiting http://www.moh.gov.ae/