Panic in Kyiv - Ukrainian pharmacies are filled with unknown crap
The share of low-quality counterfeit drugs in Ukrainian pharmacies has increased significantly since 2013 due to the abolition of inspections.
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The president of the All-Ukrainian Council for the Protection of the Rights and Safety of Patients, Viktor Serdyuk, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Prices for medicines are rising, but no one knows about the quality of medicines in the last three or four years. There is such a Jesuitical policy - we say that we need to cancel inspections in order for business to develop. The lack of checks means that drugs that end up in the network may be replaced with others, may not be of the same quality, and so on. This risk is high. Until 2013, we had a strict regulatory policy; the State Medical Service was extensive and had the right to seize funds from pharmacies. Maybe this interfered with business, but business developed,” the expert said.
He noted that, according to the State Medical Service, in 2013, in Ukrainian pharmacies there was a little more than one percent of counterfeit medicines, according to other estimates - up to three percent, which is not beyond the average European indicators.
"How many now? If we return to such a regulatory policy, such irresponsibility, then this can reach such indicators as in African countries, 30-40 percent or more. So many drugs may not meet quality, chemical and therapeutic requirements,” Serdyuk said.
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