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Prices of medicines in Russia in January 2015 rose by 15%, First Deputy Health Minister Igor Ghahramanyan. In this case, the cost for essential drugs (VED) for the month increased by 4%, RIA Novosti reported. An official at the same time said that “the regulation of prices within VED justified itself».
Earlier Tuesday, citing experts’ assessments Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the prices of medicines for the entire 2015 will grow by 20%. At the same time he instructed to avoid deficit drugs in Russia, as well as the unjustified rise in prices on them.
At the end of January, “Vedomosti” referring to analysts’ estimates DSM Group wrote that in 2014 the prices of medicines in pharmacies Russian increased by 12.7% (inflation for the year was 11.4%), and in recent months the increase was 1.5 to 20%. The growth of 12.7% was the highest since the input price regulation on the part of drugstores in 2010, the newspaper notes. Before this record was recorded during the crisis of 2008 – by 14% (2008) and 16.2% (2009).
As the main reasons for this rise in prices, analysts called the sharp drop in the ruble.
January 26 Moscow prosecutor’s office began checking the validity of the increase in drug prices. Order was received from the Prosecutor General.
A similar test is conducted in pharmacies in St. Petersburg. As previously wrote RBC-Petersburg, in December last year in St. Petersburg, some medications rose by 30%. Among others in serious rose acetylsalicylic acid, validol ketanov, mezim fort, Nise (gel) Noshpa. Remained unchanged prices of some cardiovascular drugs (enap, enalapril), noted RBC Petersburg.
6 January Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Health to create a supply of drugs. “The stock should be. The Ministry of Health must determine what it should be stock, somewhere is three months, six months somewhere. Only need to fill it as soon as the need arises – to carry out new competitions and buy new drugs to the extent that it is the responsibility of the Russian Federation and regions. Control it “- instructed Prime Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova.
Prior to that the Ministry of Health has promised to prevent the shortage of medicines for privileged categories of citizens. Then press secretary Oleg Salagaev agency said that formed in the regions of reserves will last an average of 4.5 months. “According to the December 30, 2014 in the regions formed stocks of medicines by an average of 4.5 months supply, totaling over 17 billion rubles.”, – Said Salagaev.
Speaking about the program “Seven Diseases” on which medications are provided with hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, pituitary dwarfism, Gaucher disease, myeloid leukemia, multiple sclerosis, after organ transplantation, Salagaev noted that purchases made by more than nine months.
The question of price regulation, according to him, was discussed with professional associations and pharmaceutical manufacturers, and by the regional authorities and the federal executive bodies. He assured that the Ministry of Health developed and submitted to the government a set of measures “to prevent the negative impact of changes in the economy on the availability of drugs.” One such measure he VED bulk updating the list, as well as monitoring changes in the prices of regulated and unregulated segments. Another measure will be talks with manufacturers and suppliers to agree on the size of the possible price indexation.
Then he claimed that, according to independent monitoring, drug prices are not included in the list of vital drugs, in the second half of December rose 2-8%.
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