The academic community of the Faculty of Pharmacy of “Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy expressed its concern about the content of the recently adopted laws that amend the legislation regulating pharmaceutical activity, IPN reports.
“With surprise and disappointment, we ascertain that this is a move aimed at undermining the pharmaceutical system by discrediting the pharmacists and by aiming to remove this specific sector from under control. Experts in the field, including representatives of the Faculty of Pharmacy, learned about the adoption of this series of laws from the media and from social networking system,” the University notes in a press release.
According to the University, the given laws run counter to the national legislation on the health system and also to the international legal framework, including of the EU and the CIS member states. “A community drugstore and its branch for performing pharmaceutical activity should strictly meet the requirements, the services should be provided by pharmacists, while the drugstores should have an office, a license, a sanitary authorization, an accreditation certificate and many others. The aforementioned cannot be ensured by a mobile pharmaceutical unit.
The academicians consider the ‘noble’ intention to improve the population’s access to medicines through “virtual drugstores” (through the Internet), “shops” and “ambulatory drugstores” will have the opposite effect and, in some of the cases, will have very serious consequences for the health of persons who take medicines. The academic community provides a number of arguments by which it warns that the legal provisions will have a negative impact, especially on the population’s health and on the pharmaceutical system in general. In this case, the intentions to increase the access of older persons in rural areas to drugs are a screen as the actions are detrimental to the population’s health and safety.
If these laws are implemented in pharmaceutical activity, the negative effects will be soon felt at social, economic and financial levels and the whole health system will be affected.
The legislative initiative on the activity of mobile drugstores was given a final reading on December 16.
