Minister of Health Mircea Buga said the institution he heads will request extending the list of compensated drugs and increasing the compensation percentage for vital medicines. The statements were made in the Government’s Hour within the March 5 sitting of Parliament, IPN reports.
Mircea Buga noted they will also suggest reducing the profit margin for some types of drugs. The minister was summoned to Parliament to report on the provision of the medical institutions with the necessary medicines and consumables. The official said the problem hasn’t been yet fully solved, but all the hospitals have stores that will be enough for 30-60 days. The missing drugs are substituted with analogous of the same pharmaceutical-therapeutic group.
At the start of this year, the national hospitals remained practically without medicines and consumables as the suppliers refused to fulfill their contractual obligations, arguing they sustain losses owing to the depreciation of the leu. The Government recently decided to make harsher the penalties for the suppliers that signed contracts with the medical institutions, but do no honor their obligations.
