Deputies are preparing a monopoly for drug manufacturers,
According to Okhrimenko, one of the key “innovations” of the amendments – restriction of marketing in pharmacies, will lead to an actual monopoly of drug manufacturers, and then to all the negative consequences that it causes.
Pharmacies in small and front-line towns are threatened with closure if some amendments to bill No. 11493 are adopted, says economist Alexander Okhrimenko, writes OBOZ.UA.
According to the primary idea, this bill should simplify the registration of medicines for public procurement, which is necessary, but, according to Okhrimenko, attempts to establish quotas for wholesale supplies of medicines, a ban or a significant reduction in the costs of promoting medicines – pharmacy marketing, make it dangerous for consumers.
“All this is being done under the slogan of reducing prices. In fact, it will lead to…
