Medicines were sold at the pharmacy without a prescription at prices much lower than market prices. The drug “Kadcyla”, which is used to treat breast cancer, at an average retail price of over 105 thousand rubles per package, the pharmacy sold for 32 thousand. The antitumor drug for injection “Keytruda” at a regular price of 154 thousand rubles could be bought for 55 thousand The drug “Isentress”, which is used to treat HIV, was sold for 10 thousand at a market price of 17 thousand rubles.
Law enforcement officers assume that the drugs could have been stolen or purchased from staff. Patients who did not receive their medications could die or become disabled without them.
It is time to urgently reform the drug circulation system, which cannot prevent fraud even with the most serious and expensive drugs. New ways are needed to ensure that medications reach patients strictly according to doctor’s orders and prescriptions. So as to exclude everyone who is interested in fraud.
After all, we already have experience with digitalization in other industries. Why can’t we set up an electronic prescription system and combine it with the electronic database of all pharmacies? So that the existence of gray pharmacies becomes simply impossible.
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“ВЧК ОГПУ”