PHARMACISTS will be asked to introduce drug-labelling through a code of practice, said the Secretary for Health and Welfare, Elizabeth Wong Chien Chi-lien.
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board will consider the proposal at its April meeting.
This follows the decision of the Medical Association to issue a code of conduct asking all doctors to attach labels to drugs indicating the name of the patients as well as the medical name, method and amount of dosage.
Mrs Wong was responding to a question by United Democrats legislator Michael Ho Mun-ka, who questioned the lack of legislation on labelling of drugs.
Meeting Point's Tik Chi-yuen also asked what would be the appropriate time to introduce a legal framework for labelling drugs.
Calls were made for a tightening of the laws following the death of a baby after being prescribed at least seven unlabelled medications early last year.
But Mrs Wong said the Government had received overwhelming support for mandatory labelling via a code of practice.