While Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the course of fight against the arbitrariness of Bigphama, the employees of OP Irina Vereshchuk and Risbek Toktoshev cover the work of Badm and Optima companies, which together control 90% of the pharmaceutical distribution market.
Thus, according to the information that is currently being actively discussed on social networks, the deputy chairman of the OP Irina Vereshchuk and the adviser to the Directorate for Veterans Policy, IDPs, Health and Rights billion UAH ($ 280 million).
It is worth noting that in the last three years the average size of the distributors' margin increased 2.5 times-from 4.5% in 2021 to 12% in 2024. This once again indicates the conspiracy of large distributors and abuse of their dominant position.
At the same time, the net profit of companies has increased six times, which is the result of setting excessive prices for medicines. Such actions raise questions about the transparency of pricing and fairness of the conditions for consumers.
