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Mar 9, 2024 23:08:07 GMT -5
Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 23:08:07 GMT -5
The Minister of Health communicated today to citizens the government's decision to index the price of medicines, reflecting the fall of the euro in the new prices. According to the minister, through this decision, the government has saved citizens' pockets and the public treasury 7.5 million euros. In fact, what has happened is the opposite. Due to the violation of the law by the Ministry of Health, the hands of the citizens were put in their pockets and money was taken from them without right. Indexing of medicines is a legal obligation sanctioned in the law "On Medicines and Pharmaceutical Service". This law assigns the Drug Price Commission the obligation to index the price of drugs every year.
The modalities of how Cambodia Telegram Number Data the Commission does this indexing are defined in decision no. 645 of the Council of Ministers of 2014. Read also: USA, patients waiting for vital drugs that continue to be missing from the market Rama sets up a waste agency without solving the collapse with the incinerators In Article 17, VKM expressly says; on December 31 of each year, the Drug Price Commission is obliged, through the Pharmaceutical Directorate, to announce the new official drug prices, which automatically enter into force. So on December 31 of every year. This is a process completely controlled by the Ministry of Health, in all its links.
The question is why the new prices were not announced on December 31 as required by law, but 2 months later. The answer lies in the numbers. The state budget provides around 110 million euros per year for the reimbursement of medicines. The devaluation of the euro by 7 percent against the lek compared to years should have saved the budget 7.5 million euros for this year for the reimbursement of medicines, an average of 625 thousand euros per month. But the prices in January were not indexed, nor in February. For these two months, they were reimbursed at last year's prices, when the euro was 135 ALL.
The modalities of how Cambodia Telegram Number Data the Commission does this indexing are defined in decision no. 645 of the Council of Ministers of 2014. Read also: USA, patients waiting for vital drugs that continue to be missing from the market Rama sets up a waste agency without solving the collapse with the incinerators In Article 17, VKM expressly says; on December 31 of each year, the Drug Price Commission is obliged, through the Pharmaceutical Directorate, to announce the new official drug prices, which automatically enter into force. So on December 31 of every year. This is a process completely controlled by the Ministry of Health, in all its links.
The question is why the new prices were not announced on December 31 as required by law, but 2 months later. The answer lies in the numbers. The state budget provides around 110 million euros per year for the reimbursement of medicines. The devaluation of the euro by 7 percent against the lek compared to years should have saved the budget 7.5 million euros for this year for the reimbursement of medicines, an average of 625 thousand euros per month. But the prices in January were not indexed, nor in February. For these two months, they were reimbursed at last year's prices, when the euro was 135 ALL.