From pharmacies go cheap medicines

Cheap medicines in pharmacies is becoming smaller - in the last year the share of drugs priced up to 50 rubles amounted to about 7% of the total product range, now it has decreased by 1, 4%. And produce and sell cheap drugs became very profitable.

Earlier this year, we are faced with a familiar situation - many drugs have disappeared from pharmacies. Gone aspirin tsitramon even number of medicines for diabetics. It appeared, some manufacturers of drugs from the list of vital and essential (VED) did not manage to register them limit price (last year, this procedure is required). And not always the fault of the Ministry of Public Health: a number of manufacturers, particularly of cheap medicines in no hurry with the filing dossier. "Many of them have long thought, is it worth it to do - to make cheap medicines was extremely disadvantageous," - said Academician, State Duma deputy Sergei Kolesnikov.

The greatest demand among wholesalers and pharmacies now used drugs with the highest recorded price: the higher the price, the higher the value of wholesale and retail mark-up. And there are plenty to choose: the identical drug from the list VED recorded at a different at times.

- The cheapest enalapril (a heart drug. - Ed.) Now costs 20 rubles, but you will find only 10% of pharmacies. The most expensive - more than $ 100, is in every drugstore - explains the chairman of the advisory council on health care in the public organization "Business Russia" David Melik-Guseinov.

- The tendency to cheap drug washout range lasts for years, - says the director of the Association of Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Viktor Dmitriev. - Firstly, they have low profitability. Second, they often refuse to work distributors and pharmacies. We do not set margin on the price of medicines, and on the packaging. For example, hospitals use low-cost drugs infusion, saline - they are huge, little packages. If there are two identical package and the cost of transport of the same, but one is worth 10 rubles, and another 1,000 distributor more profitable to work with the road. He either refuses to take cheap medicines, or asking a premium for their services.

Bottom line: the cheap drug manufacturers are forced to raise prices to non-regulated drugs are not from the list of VED. Wholesale prices for the entire range of medications from the beginning of the year seriously increased - by 4, 2%. While pharmacy hold back retail prices, but they will be enough for long. From 1 January rose sharply the size of insurance premiums in the pension fund, MHI increased the unified social tax, rose diesel fuel and electricity. "This is especially hit by the pharmacies," - said Kolesnikov. Only in the last year in Russia was closed about 10 thousand pharmacies, this figure could grow significantly. The number of pharmaceutical companies with negative profitability, according to the Association of drugstore chains, is now 50% off!

According to Kolesnikov, the pharmacy must be equated to the social objects of small and medium business, and preparations for the cost of up to $ 100 to cancel the registration of maximum prices.

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