DP: The government is removing medicament safety for their clients’ interests

Shehu said that the government wants to remove taxes of Balkan medicaments so they can circulate through the EU. “This ‘liberalization’ damages the spirit of this law, eliminates the quality criteria” and the government”s argument with the CEFTA agreement is wrong, according to Shehu, since it is related with free trade, which remains intact.

“Standards and the safety coefficient are something else, for which the Health Ministry answers in front of the population. This law needs other elements to guarantee beforehand the quality of those medicaments same as in EU countries. We need a special commission for this, made of domestic and foreign specialists from the EMA or the WHO, in order to improve our laws for the safety of domestically produced medicaments, those imported from Balkan countries, and reinforce our lab inspecting capacities”, Shehu declared.

He added that the local production needs full security mechanisms.

“In the current conditions of confusion, lack of complete medicament inspecting capacities, such law amends must not be realized without implementing first the inspection mechanism. Medicament safety must be changed either for political promises to other countries, or for artificual reduction of the cost, or for the interests of some groups”, Shehu declared.

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