Merchants and SMI against medicament law
18/07/2014 00:00
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Interest groups have opposed the amends in the law for medicaments and
pharmaceutical services, proposed by the Ministry of Health, since the
allowing of the unregistered medicaments in hospital tenders damages
their safety. They have raised their concerns at the Health Commission
of the Parliament.
“If this freedom of commercial rights is allowed in the so-called ‘major-needs’, it will ruin the guarantees and the standard of the distribution chain for which companies answer, and there is a risk for false products to enter the chain, or having a lack of efficiency and safety”, declared Roland Xhafaj, Head of the Association of Pharmaceutical Representatives.
They had the support of Socialist Movement for Integration MPs
“A traceable registered medicament is safe. Unregistered medicaments may enter from strange places and make the system unsafe. One more month of registration for medicaments is much more useful than an unbraiding of the system in this basic mechanism”, declared the Parliament Member from the SMI, Petrit Vasili.
The Socialist MP, Eduart Bejko, reminded the pharmaceutical companies about the report of the World Bank, which underlined that Albanians buy medicine with a more expensive price than other EU and regional countries.
“The law will not return, because it has the investments made by other groups. I agree with some concerns that you have, such as the registration and negotiation problem, the problem of generic and patented medicaments, but based on the recent report of the European institutions, saying that Albanians pay more for medicaments than any other European country, then we must stop and see things with more reality”, Eduard Bejko declared.
The vice chairman of the Parliamentary Commission of Health and Social Matters, Klodiana Spahiu, and MPs of this commission, asked the interest groups to reformulate their concerns and send it to the Health Ministry.
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