Flu vaccine producers planned on bringing 63,000 doses of flu vaccines to Estonia for this year, a quarter more than last season. Before the flu season has even begun, however, these vaccines have already all sold out. Kadri Saar, a senior inspector at the Bureau of Activity Licences and Inspections of the State Agency of…
Terve Pere Apteek OU, which operates a chain of pharmacies under the Apotheka brand, has been ordered by the State Agency of Medicines to stop dispensing medicine at its pharmacy location on the premises of North Estonia Medical Center (PERH) in Tallinn. The State Agency of Medicines has forbidden the pharmacy situated in Estonia’s largest…
Cooperation with India in pharmaceutics will help lower the prices for some medicines on the Belarusian market, Belarus Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko reported. “We need to search for options to lower drug prices. There is an absurd situation: some medicines in Belarus are several times more expensive that their foreign analogues. We should understand…
PJSC Farmak pharmaceutical company will invest UAH 230 million in the development of projects in 2017, Farmak CEO Augustin Dubnicka has said. According to Dubnicka, at present the company uses and plans to use mainly own funds for the development of projects, although in the past the company used a certain amount of attracted resources.…
Kazakhstan’s single national pharmacy and medical equipment procurement operator SK-Pharmacy has purchased almost 1.5 million influenza vaccines for the season of 2017, the company’s press-service reports. According to the Chairman of the Board of SK-Pharmacy Maxim Kasatkin, this year the government has spent 1.2 billion tenge on free vaccination of the most vulnerable groups of…
Britain’s Crown Agents is replacing a number of medicines supplied under the project of public procurement of medicines for oncology adults and children by the 2015 state budget, the agency has said in a press release. At present, Crown Agents replaced 2,800 out of 17,000 packages of Methotrexate to treat child oncology that was procured…
Pharmacy sales in Ukraine in January-May increased by 18% in monetary terms compared to the same period in 2016, to UAH 26.573 billion. Pharmacy sales in physical terms grew by 11%, to 620.2 million packages, the Business Credit company reported. In particular, retail sales of medicines increased by 17% in monetary terms, to UAH 21.659…