Rural areas should also have expired drug recovery points

Recently, the recycling point of expired drugs for families in Zhuhai has been officially put into operation, encouraging residents to hand over their expired drugs to community drug recycling points and recover more than 100 boxes of expired drugs on the first day.

Whether in urban or rural areas, many families have some expired medicines. The expiration of drugs means that drugs are ineffective, mutated and moldy. If they are taken carelessly, they will endanger their health. Moreover, if expired drugs are disposed of improperly and thrown away as ordinary garbage, the toxic components will decompose, causing pollution to the soil and water sources. There are even some unscrupulous businessmen who reprocess the fully packaged expired drugs back to the market, bringing great hidden dangers to the use of drugs for village residents.

Some cities in China have already started the fixed-point recovery of expired drugs, but in most rural areas, the recovery of expired drugs is still blank. Zhuhai extends the recycling of expired drugs from urban areas to village communities, which is undoubtedly conducive to the recovery and management of expired drugs in rural areas, which is worth popularizing. Of course, we should also strengthen publicity, let the consciousness of recycling of expired drugs into families and campuses, improve villagers' awareness of recycling of expired drugs, and make the recycling of expired drugs normalized and institutionalized in rural areas.