6 in 10 reappraised drugs sell by 10 lei cheaper

Around 62% medicines in storehouses which underwent governmental reappraisal are selling in drug-stores by 10 lei cheaper than in December. 30% of the reappraised medicines sell by nearly 50 lei cheaper, and roughly 5% of them sell by 100 lei cheaper. The information was communicated by Medicines Agency director Maria Cojocaru-Toma at a news conference on Thursday, Info-Prim Neo. Medicines showing new price tags are selling in 150 out of nearly 900 drug-stores across the country, including in 6 drug-store chains. Elsewhere, the prices will be adjusted after technical issues are removed. Until present the National Medicines Registry (effective from January 1) has included 2,500 names of medicines out of over 4,000 imported into Moldova. Their number will be gradually increased. The price fixed in the Registry is the median of the 3 lowest producer prices declared in the importation applications. 82% of the medicines selling in Moldova are imported. The markup, meaning the amount added to the price fixed in the Registry, must not exceed 40%.