The Ministry of Health wants to reduce prices for medicines that have long been prescribed

While Ukrainians pay twice as much antibiotics, the Ministry of Health is included in the list of medicines for mandatory cheaper ... Cloffin and codeine. Drugs that have long been used in medical practice or directly related to the risk of addiction, suddenly appeared among the "top 100 vital".

According to the Cabinet resolution, from March 1, prices for certain medicines were to fall by 30%. But experts are alarmed: Codepsin (opioid analgesic) and Clofelin (a drug from the Soviet past, known as a "carotid drop").

"Cloffeline is irrelevant, and codeine is mostly associated with the risk of addiction," said Narcologist Vadim Nestov in a comment from UNN. According to him, in civilized countries, such drugs have long been limited in use, and is not exactly a priority for cheaper.

And narcologist psychiatrist Sergey Nikolaevich in general jokes: "Vigor" in the list is probably just nostalgia. "This balm was drunk in the 2000s, because there was no money for alcohol. Now what-we return to that time?"

The Ministry of Health has not yet provided public explanation why these drugs appeared in the list. Moreover, the ministry representatives could not even remember who formed the list and what criteria.

Currently, Vigor has been removed from the well -known list after criticism, but Cloffin and Codeine have remained. Meanwhile, prices for vital antibiotics, cardiovascular disease and drugs for chronic patients are only increasing.

What explains such a pharmaceutical policy is unclear. But experts believe that it can be a lobbying of manufacturers of specific means or banal incompetence.

"Instead of real support for patients, we get a farce. People are waiting for insulin prices, antibiotics, hypertensive medicines, and they are offered cheaper" codepsin "and balm that is no longer sold in pharmacies," the doctors say.

Despite the decree, real prices fell by only 25%, as analytical data shows. And the rest of the medicines that have not been on the "gold list" continue to rise. The Ministry of Health promises to "review the criteria", but so far Clofelin remains in the list of drugs that, according to the Ministry's logic, are "vital to Ukrainians".

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