The Parliament is ready for a dialogue with pharmaceutical market participants on quotas for drug supplies
Kyiv • UNN
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on health issues will consider amendments to draft law No. 11493 on quotas for the supply of medicines. Deputies plan to discuss with pharmaceutical market participants ways to reduce the cost of medicines for patients.
Today, December 9, members of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, medical care and health insurance will consider amendments to draft law No. 11493, which relate to quotas for the supply of medicines, a single electronic catalog and regulation of marketing contracts. People's deputies plan to make medicines more affordable for the patient. And we are ready to discuss this issue with pharmaceutical market participants. This was stated in a comment to UNN by a member of the committee Valery Zub.
"Our goal is to make medicines more accessible to patients. In what way? Now we need pharmacists to tell us what to do. Either reduce the purchase price, reduce margins, or introduce special regulatory mechanisms. But it has to be done.
We will now have a subcommittee, and I will make a proposal that we should meet with manufacturers and pharmacy chains on the basis of a subcommittee or committee and come to a common opinion together. Let them carry their suggestions. Our goal is clear - let's hear them," he said.
We add that the draft law also proposes to limit the possibility for retail entities to conclude contracts for marketing services with manufacturers or suppliers of medicines. Commenting on this, Zub noted that this norm should be assigned to the Cabinet of ministers.
"My proposal is to give everything to the level of the Cabinet of ministers, so that the Cabinet of ministers regulates these issues. Not the law, because the law is, you know, a rather complicated procedure.
We have a cabinet of ministers that should monitor this. I will also make such a proposal for marketing payments," he said.
