The list of compensated medicines is to be completed with a new preparation meant for people with type-II diabetes and heart failure. The cost of the medicine will be compensated at the level of 50% from mandatory health insurances accounts (AOAM). According to the Health Ministry, the decision has been recently taken by the council…
The Republic of Moldova has got a batch of 30 thousand doses of the 2022-2023 seasonal flu vaccine donated by The Task Force. The vaccine is tetravalent (a dose of 0.5 ml) and was stored at the National Vaccine Warehouse of the National Agency for Public Health (ANSP) until distribution in the territorial subdivisions. The…
Moldova has received a consignment of 188,000 doses of GCFLU tetravalent influenza vaccine, sources of the National Health Insurances Company (CNAM) have reported. According to the National Public Health Agency (ANSP), the vaccines were stocked in conditions of the refrigerating chain at the ANSP’s National Warehouse of Vaccines. The vaccines are to be carried and…
Lithuania has received 138,200 doses of an Omicron-adapted coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry reports. The vaccine targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 coronavirus sub-variants will be used for the first or second booster shots, with producers expected to deliver more than half a million adapted vaccine doses in October. The second booster shot of the vaccine…
Georgian health minister Zurab Azarashvili on October 3 said financing of medications against chronic illnesses would be increased by GEL 30 million ($10.68 million) in the 2023 state budget. He also said the list of subsidised drugs would be expanded as part of the move. “We will implement reference pricing for medications beginning in January.…
100,200 doses of an Omicron-adapted coronavirus vaccine have reached Lithuania, the Health Ministry said on October 3. Adapted to the Omicron subtypes BA.4 and BA.5, the vaccine will be used as the first or second booster shots. Vaccine makers plan to deliver more than half a million doses of the adapted vaccines in October, the…
The National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) has announced hat the antibiotic preparations for the treatment of animals will be marketed only under veterinary prescription. The ANSA Order on restriction of the use of antimicrobial substances in animals for combating antimicrobial resistance entered into force on September 13. “Veterinary pharmacies will no longer sell veterinary…