Moldovan premier meets pharmaceutical sector's representatives

12:14 | 06.02.2016 Category: Official

Chisinau, 6 February /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today met representatives of the biggest importers of medicines, medication warehouses and pharmaceutical networks of Moldova, the government’s communication and media relations department has reported.

The prime minister said he wanted a sincere and constructive dialogue on problems faced by enterprises and the way bureaucratic obstacles might be removed, so that the business environment has optimum conditions for work, and the citizens be supplied with quality medicines and at reasonable prices.

“If there are cases of pressures, extortion of money by employees of state institutions in charge of regulation in the pharmaceutical sector, I am determined to remove them. By implementing intelligent mechanisms of regulating this sector, possibilities of taking bribes will be removed,” Pavel Filip said.

The pharmaceutical sector’s representatives welcomed the invitation to dialogue and referred to the most pressing problems they were facing. Among them, there are an excessive number of authorizations and certificates they have to get, losses from fluctuations of the currency exchange, high costs for registering medicines, non-transparent tenders, which are not observed by hospitals.

The prime minister said that many of these problems had been reported to him and state institutions were to remove them step by step. “The first step was made by establishing a moratorium on controls on behalf of state institutions. We will make proper order also in the way tenders are organised, in order to exclude the human factor and possibility of corruption,” Pavel Filip said.

The prime minister also said he would have discussions with all actors on the pharmaceutical market of Moldova, in order to highlight the problems and deficiencies on all segments and would come up with concrete solutions. “The business needs predictability and clear-cut rules of work and the residents have right to quality, efficient medication and at reasonable prices. I am determined to identify and ensure the needed balance to achieve these goals,” the prime minister added.

(Editor A. Raileanu)

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