# Ministry of Health and Wellness, Barbados

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## TL;DR

Barbados's Ministry of Health and Wellness. Its Barbados Drug Service publishes the national medicines formulary and buys and distributes the medicines on it.

## Summary

The Ministry's pharmaceutical services are provided by the Barbados Drug Service, which produces the Barbados National Drug Formulary each year and procures and distributes the drugs listed in it; a drug inspectorate inspects and licenses public and private pharmacies and drug manufacturing plants under the Health Services Act. It administers the Drug Service Act (Cap 40A) and the Health Services Act (Cap 44). The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the country's public acute hospital. The coordinates are an approximate Bridgetown city point.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Ministry of Health and Wellness Barbados; Barbados Drug Service
- City: Bridgetown, BB
- Type: government
- Website: https://www.health.gov.bb

## Sources

- Ministry of Health and Wellness: pharmaceutical services: https://www.health.gov.bb/For-Public/Pharmaceutical-Services

## Connected records

- institutions: [The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Barbados)](https://onco.cc/institutions/qeh-barbados/)

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