"We will foremostly activate drug substation to resolve the drug shortages issue," Cho Kyoo-hong, Minister of Health and Welfare (MOHW), promised during the parliamentary audit session commenced by the National Assembly's Small Committee for Health and Welfare.

This is an answer from the MOHW director to an issue of essential medicines frequently in shortage, leading to chaos in pharmacies and lower patient access to medications. The issue has been unresolved for several years.

Rep. Seo Youngseok and Rep. Nam In-soon of the Democratic Party of Korea have requested the implementation of active ingredient prescriptions for cold medicines and essential medicines to resolve the issue of freq