Know Your Medicine

Quality Use of Medicine - Consumer (QUM-C) is a national project under Pharmaceutical Services Programme, Ministry of Health Malaysia started in 2007. The programme is introduced to support the fourth component of Malaysian National Medicines Policy (Dasar Ubat Nasional, DUNas) which is quality use of medicines. The main objective of this project is to ensure that medicines are used wisely, appropriately, safely and cost-effectively for better health outcomes.

The initiatives of the component include the following; to enhance the quality use of medicines by consumers, to empower community leaders on the quality use of medicines and to provide timely and accurate information on medicines to consumers and to engage NGOs/professional societies towards quality use of medicines and consumer protection.

Quality use of medicines are responsibility of healthcare provider and consumers. Both parties have important role in ensuring medicines are used in optimum manner to increase health outcomes.