Pharmacists' Law in deadlock

While the National Assembly¡¯s work of revising the Pharmacists¡¯ Law has been stalemated due to bipartisan differences, the Korea Pharmacists¡¯ Association resolved not to participate in the debate on how to rewrite it. The decision of the association came in a meeting of about 200 leading members from across the nation on Tuesday.In a statement, the association said, ¡°We boycott debate on how to revise the Pharmacists¡± Law. In case of a revision, we will launch a struggle to have it revised again. We will ask the political circle to compensate damage on people¡¯s health from abuse of the law.Park In-Jun in charge of publicity of the association said, ¡°We cannot tolerate revising the law which has not yet to be implemented. We complied with dialogue with patience but our patience has reached a limit. It is our members¡¯ will that we should engage in any humiliating negotiation no more.¡±The association also said that the opposition Grand National Party is speaking only for the doctors, saying its members will make a protest visit to the party headquarters and seek to meet its president Lee Hoi-Chang.