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he Bekasi municipality in West Java plans to implement a stricter regulation of medicine distribution in the city next week following a recent fake vaccine scandal.

Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi said on Tuesday that with the regulation, distributors would not be permitted to sell drugs and medicines to hospitals in the city unless they were registered with the Bekasi Health Agency.

“Aside from being listed at the Health Ministry, the distributors should also be listed with the Bekasi Health Agency. I will draft a mayoral decree on this,” Rahmat told beritajakarta.com, adding that local hospitals should also be registered on the city’s list.

At the same opportunity, Rahmat also spoke about medical waste management by hospital.

“I will meet the directors of each hospital in the city and ask them to dispose of their waste at the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Treatment Area,” he said.