Moldovan pharmacists will be required to print out the instructions for the drug in Russian if the buyer requests it. Such a norm will be included in Moldovan legislation.
Member of the Moldovan Parliament Vladimir Odnostalco wrote about this on his Facebook.
“The decision regarding the instructions in Russian is as follows: the instructions will be located in electronic form on the website of the Medicines Agency. At the request of the patient/client, the pharmacist at the pharmacy will print out the instructions in Russian. This is the fundamental decision of today’s meeting,” Odnostalko wrote following a meeting between the authors of the law and representatives of the AmCham Business Association..
The bill was introduced in September, but the then pro-European government rejected it. This was explained by the fact that importers would be forced to bear the cost of printing instructions, which would lead to higher prices for medicines.
“According to the requirements for packaging, the manufacturer is ready to produce exclusive packaging for any country if it can buy a minimum amount of the product, and Moldova, from a batch of 35 thousand of the drug, buys only 500, for example,” the government concluded.
After the pro-European government was dismissed, the bill was revisited.
Let us note that a significant number of Moldovans know that cheap medicines with instructions in Russian can be bought in Transnistria, and go there with their prescriptions. The fact is that, unlike Moldova, which has switched to European standards, the unrecognized republic imports drugs from Russia and Belarus.
However, as early as February, this import may be blocked, since Moldova and Ukraine intend to establish joint checkpoints at the checkpoint in the village of Kuchurgan, through which medicines were usually imported.