Seventy-one state-subsidized pharmacies will be opened the next six months in villages with over 1,000 inhabitants by three economic agents that will receive between 15,000 and 20,000 lei monthly from the state for the purpose, IPN reports, with reference to RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service.
Three economic agents participated in the first tender contest organized by the Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices for the project “Pharmacy in your village” and they all won. Salut SRL, which owns the Felicia pharmacy network, is about to open 10 pharmacies. Largus Fer SRL will open 18 pharmacies, while Sanfarm-prim SA, which is a pharmaceutical warehouse where the state owns 99% of the shares, is to open 43 pharmacies.
The economic agents that do not set up state-subsidized pharmacies within six months will lose this right.
In two months, the Agency will organize a new tender contest for another 75 localities.
There are 1,510 authorized pharmacies in Moldova, of which over 1,000 are located in municipalities and district centers. Of the nearly 1,500 villages, only around 400 have pharmacies.
