NA member and pharmacist Jung-sook Suh of the People Power Party urged the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety to present a specific solution to resolve the long-standing issue of ‘unused surplus inventory of drugs' in pharmacies.

Currently, the burden of the unused surplus drugs is solely borne by the community pharmacists that owns or operates pharmacies, and Suh’s request is that the ministries should operate a consultative group with pharmacists’ associations, pharmaceutical industry, and the distribution industry to come up with a practical and direct solution.

On the 21st, Suh criticized that “Medicines are public goods, therefore, the issue