The prices of more than 3,000 types of drugs decreased by 33% after the National Catalogue of Price started to be used. Minister of Health Andrei Usatyi told a news conference that the reappraisal of drugs will go on, Info-Prim Neo reports. “This process in irreversible. We will continue to assess the producer prices so that all the prices are adjusted correspondingly,” the minister said. Among the drugs that were cheapened significantly, officials of the Health Ministry mentioned Dopamin, which cost 142 lei, but now is sold for 106 lei. The price of Neurotop dropped from 132 to 98 lei. Cefazolin is sold for 28 lei, as against 36 lei earlier, while Ampicillin was cheapened from 70 to 57 lei. The National Catalogue of Prices came into force on January 1, 2011. The profit margin on drugs cannot exceed 40% of the price indicated in the Catalogue.