The Drug Supply Department of Kyrgyzstan has failed to set limit retail and wholesale prices for medicines, Aisha Sulaimanova, head of the Pricing Monitoring Sector of the Drug Supply Department of the Ministry of Health, has announced. A resolution was adopted in 2019 on approval of temporary rules for regulating the prices of medicines in…
According to the Health Ministry, local pharmaceutical producers are currently working at full capacity in Kazakhstan. It is also said the pharmaceutical producers are now using a three-shift system to provide constant supplies of their products to the retail market as well as to ensure free supplies of pharmaceuticals to medical facilities. According to the…
Private joint-stock company Farmak (Kyiv), the pharmaceutical company, did not halt production and would gradually exit lockdown, the press service of the company reported. “Farmak continues production as usual. All lines are working as planned. However, after lockdown was announced all over the country on March 12 and the Health Ministry recommended that enterprises transfer…
In 2019, the Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund of Kyrgyzstan paid 32.4 million soms to medical organizations for management and monitoring of tuberculosis patients until completion of treatment on an outpatient basis, press service of the fund reported. At least 2,132 patients have completed treatment on an outpatient basis (1,667 people in 2018), including 1,570 with…
Over the course of two years, Latvia’s list of state-compensated medicines has been expanded with only two modern generation medicines for cancer treatment, which is less when compared to Lithuania and Estonia, as reported by Association of International Innovative Pharmaceuticals Producers (SIFFA) director Valters Bolevics. In Latvia the two latest additions to the list of…
In two pharmacies in the Russia-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region medicines, which were produced in Georgia, were confiscated by the de-facto Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tskhinvali region. The sale of Georgia-made products, including medicines, is prohibited by a resolution of the de-facto government in the Russia-occupied Tskhinvali region, adopted in 2006. Local doctors in…
2,932 pharmaceutical organizations work in Kyrgyzstan. The Ministry of Health provided such data. The number includes 797 pharmacies, 328 pharmacy warehouses, 1,571 points and 201 kiosks, as well as 35 manufacturing workshops. At least 1,160 senior pharmacists and 1,772 pharmacists are employed in the pharmaceutical organizations. In addition, 1,516 private healthcare organizations operate in the…