Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Ministry of Health to verify complaints from social networks – Russian newspaper

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will give on check in the Ministry of Health data from social networks to increase drug prices.

The Prime Minister held a meeting on the pricing of medicines. Looking through the front of this social network, Dmitry Medvedev drew attention to the messages from the different regions in which people write that prices are rising at pharmacies. Vcyu the information he intends to send to the Ministry of Health for testing: “We need to check whether this is so. If so, take all necessary steps for a balanced supply of medicines to pharmacies respective settlements”.

Prices for medical drugs will be stable if the drug will produce domestically. “Our task – to reach 90 per cent coverage of vital and essential drugs through the production deployed in Russia” – recalled the prime task of import substitution.

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In the meantime, the market of medicines need to balance the interests of producers and consumers. “It is appropriate to recall the social responsibility of business – said Dmitry Medvedev. – Of course, the business must be profitable, but the drug should still be affordable, especially when these drugs are essential, so that all who are engaged in this business, need to understand and measure their own responsibility “.

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