The ministry of health again changing the rules of the game: in the new list of medicines agency offers not specify the dosage form of the drug, and confine the name of the active ingredient.
Such a solution, experts say, increases the list of products subject to State control, by 860 positions. For ordinary people it can threaten the disappearance from the shelves of pharmacies essential drugs . In other words, the pharmaceutical market is waiting for Russia almost wholly a repetition of the situation in January 2011, when the Ministry of Health has also not had time to approve the price, and chemist shelves of the country disappeared about 700 essential drugs.
Recall that in 2010 was officially launched the state registration of the prices of essential drugs. Since Ministry of Health regularly update introduces contradict this group of drugs: some positions are added, and some are excluded on the basis of the recommendations of the World Health Organisation.
According to the information in the updated (until 2012) version of the list essential drugs 563 includes the drug. The draft list of drugs was published on 26 September 2011, but for some reason, the Ministry of Health it is not yet approved.
As mentioned above, one of the surprises of the new project will be the exception specified dosage form drugs. From now on, the list will be referred to only the international name of generic drugs, and the form in which the drug will be released (suppositories, tablets, drops) does not matter.
If it happens that the list of funds Ministry of Health Yet approve before the end of October, many producers risk not to have time to register the new list prices for drugs. "As the number of items increases, most manufacturers simply can not cope with this task," - believes executive director of the Pharmacy Guild Elena Nevolina.
Therefore, it is likely that many essential drugs again disappear from pharmacies.
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