DRAP Releases a Pashto Video on Reporting Medicine Problems

DRAP has introduced an animated medicine-safety video in Pashto to help patients and healthcare professionals report suspected side effects and other medicine-related problems. The National Pharmacovigilance Centre developed the video.

In this article we set out who the video is for and what reporting is meant to do. Here is everything you need to know.

What the Pashto video asks people to report

The video is one animation, in Pashto, about medicine safety. Patients and healthcare professionals are the audience. The reports it encourages cover suspected side effects and other medicine-related problems. DRAP links that reporting to spotting potential risks and making medicines safer. The focus named for awareness is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the language barrier is the problem the video is meant to reduce. No link, length, or broadcast slot is given.

Why it matters

A report that never gets made because of language does not reach the regulator. The Pashto video is the tool named for that gap, produced by the National Pharmacovigilance Centre.

• The body is DRAP
• The format is one animated video
• The language is Pashto
• The maker is the National Pharmacovigilance Centre
• The audience is patients and healthcare professionals
• The reports are suspected side effects and other medicine problems
• The province named is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

What this release leaves open

1. Where to watch the video.
2. How long it runs.
3. A phone number or form for the reports.
4. Versions in other languages.

What happens next

Patients and health workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are being asked to report suspected medicine problems. We will update this article if DRAP publishes a link or a reporting number.

Our verdict

DRAP has released one animated Pashto video, made by the National Pharmacovigilance Centre, so patients and health workers can report suspected side effects and other medicine problems.

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