Egypt’s Minister of Health Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar issued a decree on Sunday allowing only “qualified pharmacists” to administer intramuscular and subcutaneous injections to patients at pharmacies, regulating the practice for the first time.

The ministry’s decision comes after an incident in October when two young sisters received antibiotic injections at a pharmacy and subsequently died because the pharmacist failed to test for allergies.

Both the pharmacist and her assistant were detained by authorities and now face charges of practicing medicine without a license, according to an official statement issued by the prosecution.