Delfim da Costa Xavier Ferreira

Ph - 77546543
Email - delfim_costa@yahoo.com

Attributions and Skills

1. The National Directorate of Pharmacy and Medicines, hereinafter referred to as DNFM, is responsible for the definition, regulation, execution and evaluation of the national policy for medicines, pharmaceutical activity and health laboratories.

2. It is incumbent, in particular, on DNFM:
a) Support in the definition and propose the pharmaceutical and laboratory policies;
b) Develop legislation on medicines, pharmaceutical activity and health laboratories;
c) Participate in the definition of the policy related to the production, marketing, import, export, control and consumption of medicines or other health products;
d) To elaborate the technical rules for the installation and operation of pharmaceutical establishments, namely manufacturers and wholesalers, pharmacies of workshops, pharmaceutical services of hospitals and clinics, public and private, as well as, drug outlets;
e) Ensure inspection and inspection for licensing of pharmaceutical and laboratory activities;
f) To study and propose legal measures on the use of medicinal products, as well as to keep the National List of Essential and Supplementary Medicines up to date and to ensure their compliance;
g) Plan the necessities in medicines and medical consumables to satisfy the needs of the institutions of the National Health Service;
h) Request SAMES to supply medicines, reagents, medical consumables and health equipment to the institutions of the National Health Service;
i) Establish mechanisms to control and guarantee the quality of medicines imported or marketed in the country;
j) ensure the procedures for issuing marketing authorizations for medicinal products and maintain their registrations;
k) Issue the authorizations for the licensing of industrial and commercial establishments for the production and sale of medicines, consumables and medical equipment;
l) To organize and keep up-to-date a database of pharmacies, drug stores, pharmaceutical production laboratories and clinical analyzes, drug stores and medical products;
m) ensure compliance with international obligations undertaken in the context of pharmaceutical activities, in particular the protocols on medicinal products and other potentially toxic, narcotic and psychotropic substances;
n) Define the policy and technical standards for the provision of clinical laboratory services, and guide its implementation in consultation with the National Health Laboratory;
o) Define the national network of clinical analysis laboratories and ensure their establishment and functioning;
p) To exercise the other powers that are committed to him by law or by superior decision;

Structure
The DNFM is structured in:
a) Department Marketing Authorization
b) Department Farmacovigilance
c) Department of Planning and Management of Acquisitions;
d) Secretariat of DNFM

Admin Staff Members:

Idelfina Maria F. Vinhas
Official Financas
Admin Staff

Claudia Freitas de Araujo
General Admin
Admin Staff

Horquidia J. de C. F. Guterres
Admin for Director
Admin Staff

Queris Romario Coelho
Admin Staff

Miguel Lopes
Driver
General Staff

Jose Pinheiro
Driver
General Staff