Last Updated on September 9, 2023
DRAP’s issues safety updates and alerts related to the therapeutic goods in order to ensure that healthcare professionals and other stakeholders have timely access to the relevant information on safety, quality and efficacy issues or benefit/risk evaluations of the drugs, vaccines and medical devices. Such information updates are issues time to time from the DRAP, and mainly includes the new scientific and regulatory information updates in line with the principles of reliance on the information generated by the reference regulatory authorities on the safety and efficacy of therapeutic goods.
Therapeutic products requires continuous monitoring to evaluate the benefits-risk ratio throughout the lifecycle, to mitigate and minimize any known or suspected risks associated with them. This section includes information updates primarily for healthcare professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, etc) and other stakeholders to provides an insight on the benefit / risk assessment of the products including the information on how to identify and mitigate the risks, and possible actions which can be taken by the healthcare professionals. These communications are aimed at assisting healthcare professionals and consumers to make informed decisions about their use of therapeutic goods..
The following section provides the list of product safety updates issued.