The Democrats disputed in the Constitutional Court bills No. 236 and 240. These provide that mobile drugstores will be created and the producer price regulation mechanism will be abandoned. The selling prices of drugs will be declared and the profit margin allowed by law will be applied. According to the Democratic Party (PDM), the liberalization of prices of medicines will swiftly lead to a rise in the prices of these, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the party.
“We challenged in the CC the bills by which Shor was allowed by Dodon to deride the people and their health even if the Government and the NAC disapproved of these bills. They endanger the people’s health and the country’s pharmaceutical security and violate the right to health protection that is enshrined in the Constitution,” said the president of the PDM Pavel Filip.
According to the Democratic leader, the mobile drugstores without a license, sanitary and accreditation certificates are an electoral invention of the leader of the Shor Party. The Government admitted that the state could not control the so-called “drugstores” that will be unable to ensure appropriate storage and transportation conditions.
The liberalization of prices of drugs will generate a swift rise in the prices of these. The medicines issued without medical prescription represent the largest part of commercial names in drugstores and the uncontrolled application of prices on these will limit the population’s access to drugs. This provision will take effect on January 1, 2021 and poses an imminent risk to state security, noted the Democrats.
The given laws were also criticized by the academic community of the Faculty of Pharmacy of “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Moldova, who consider this is an action aimed at undermining the pharmaceutical system by discrediting pharmacists and by the wish to free this specific area from control.
