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Interview with Warvin Newsletter-Handling of Medications in the Kurdish Region

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A picture showing how an individual is allowed to sell medications without having to have a proper pharmacy attire on, name tag or a pharmacy technician licensing 1. What are the requirements for storing medicine? By law, every medication has to be accompanied by a package insert. All information regarding storage content is contained within the package insert. All retail drug stores should abide by this package insert for the storage requirements of the medications.  Some medications require to be kept at room temperature, while others require being stored in a fridge. 2. In Kurdistan, we don’t have specialized stores for keeping medicine, what are the consequences? When the medication is stored under improper environments, the medication is considered adulterated and not good for the use by the public.  Some of the consequences of adulterated medication are loss of efficacy and stability, shortening of the medication’s shelf-life, etc. 3. Is keeping medic...