Moldovan government approves pharmaceutical market action plan

Chisinau, 10 March /MOLDPRES/-Prime Minister Pavel Filip today chaired a working meeting on the current state of the medication and pharmaceutical market, as well as on ensuring citizens with medication, the government’s communication and press relations department has reported.

This new meeting completes the string of gatherings and consultations on this subject, started in February 2016.

At the prime minister’s initiative, attending these meetings were representatives of the public sector, domestic and foreign producers, importers, pharmacies and other members of the pharmaceutical sector. The sides identified problems in the field and came up with solutions.

To this effect, the participants carried out an action plan for 2016 with concrete measures, authorities in charge and enforcement deadlines, due to be implemented in the social and medical sectors.

Among the measures included in the plan, Filip touched upon the enlargement by 50 per cent of the list of subsidized medication, in order to minimize the financial burden on patients, especially the old ones and with chronic diseases. “The plan also provides for simplifying the access of authorized EU, U.S. or Japanese medication on the Moldovan market. We also aim to extend the pharmaceutical network in rural settlements,” the prime minister noted.

Filip also tackled the measures aimed to ensure the transparency of the medicine’s acquisition process, minimize its deadlines and launch some pilot acquisition patterns to raise the awareness of all the participants in the process. “We want to remove a part of the medications that do not need medical prescription, from the national price catalog, in order to balance the pharmaceutical market,” the prime minister added.

Filip voiced confidence that the measures would balance the Moldovan pharmaceutical market for the benefit of citizens, who will have a better and freer access to qualitative medicines.

(Editor M. Jantovan)