The parliamentary group of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) requested the Constitutional Court to verify the constitutionality of the amendments to the law on medicines that were recently adopted by the MPs of the Shor Party and the Party of Socialists. PAS vice president, MP Dan Perciun said the law in the new variant can generate major risks to the population’s health and to the integrity of the pharmaceutical system, IPN reports.

The MP noted they challenge the liberalization of the price of medicines issued without prescription and the reduction of the profit margin on compensated drugs. They consider the liberalization of the price will lead to a rise in the prices of drugs, while the drastic reduction of the profit margin on compensated drugs, in the absence of an impact analysis, risks discouraging especially the small drugstores, which will refuse to sell these.

“The people will pay more for such medicines as paracetamol, while the compensated drugs will disappear from drugstores,” the MP posted on Facebook.

Dan Perciun invoked serious violations of the legislative procedures and made reference to the approach of the academic community of the Faculty of Pharmacy of “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy and of the Association of Pharmacists of Moldova, which expressed their concern about the content of the recently adopted laws that amend the legislation regulating pharmaceutical activity. They noted this is a move aimed at undermining the pharmaceutical system by discrediting the pharmacists and by aiming to remove this specific sector from under control.