Moldovan premier demands institutions in charge investigate deficiencies in pharmaceutical sector

Chisinau, 20 April /MOLDPRES/-During the cabinet meeting today, Prime Minister Pavel Filip touched upon a journalistic investigation carried out by a Moldovan mass-media institution, according to which medication imported from Ukraine is being sold at much higher prices and some state officials facilitated the use of illegal schemes on the pharmaceutical market, the government’s communication and press relations department has reported.

In this context, Filip demanded that the Prosecutor General’s Office, National Anti-corruption Center, Interior Ministry and the Health Ministry take note of this information and check its veracity.  

“Many questions pop up. I asked the Medicines Agency for preventive information on this case,” the prime minister said. He noted that according to the information he has, some of the medicines mentioned in the journalistic investigation have not been sold in Moldova since 2012.

Filip also required that Deputy Prime Minister for Social Problems Gheorghe Brega monitors and ensures communication between institutions, so that all the information could be made available for the civil society when the inquiry of this case is over. 

(Editor A. Raileanu)