The Director of the Medicine Control Center, Besnik Jaku, opposed the
declarations of the Order of Physicians for increasing the medicaments’ price
with 20%, due to a new fiscal stamp.
According to him, the cost of the stamp will not affect the prices, but will simply control the pharmaceutical market.
“The stamp has a very small cost, slightly higher than the current one, which will not affect the medicaments’ price. This double stamp offers more safety and quality. The current stamp has a cost that is paid by the importer and the producer of the medicaments, and is not related with the sale price. The new stamp will not change the medicaments’ price”, Jaku declared.
According to Jaku, the medicaments’ price has never increased and will not increase, but the Order of Physicians is trying to spread panic, because they object the market reforms undertaken by the Health Ministry for the Pharmaceutics.
Medicaments 20% pricier
Medicaments’ prices will increase with 20% this year, due to another tax stamp that will be added to the packages.
“There is a VAT for medicine, a fiscal stamp that will increase the price with 20% more than the current one”, declared Arjan Jaupllari, President of the Order of Physicians.
He listed all current market problems, starting from the criteria for opening a pharmacy, which, according to him, leaves many rural areas without service, due to the great number of pharmacies opened in the same area. He also been criticized the private universities that give diplomas to unqualified pharmacists.
“The pharmaceutics system has progressed in these five years, not regressed. Now it is going towards the collapse and we appeal for this system to be stopped. The first steps are to remove the concept of negotiation for medicaments’ prices; stopping the exclusion of the Order of Physicians’ from this Commission; removing the distance and technical criteria for opening a pharmacy; stopping universities from giving undeserved diplomas”, Jaupllari declared.
Jaupllari underlined the concern that many pharmacists who offer their services are in fact veterinarians.
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