Why Ukraine shut down pharmacies?

The drug will be sold only through pharmacies or pharmaceutical warehouses, reported the press service of the State service on medicinal products.

1 January 2013 no effect of rules of law, which enabled the business entities to conduct retail trade in drugs through pharmacies.





The requirement about the termination of the kiosks is justified by the fact that the quality of services of medicines pharmacies are not able to provide appropriate level of pharmaceutical services. Moreover, in the pharmacy there was a total absence of sales area, the gross area of the pharmacy kiosk was limited, the conditions of storage of drugs was constantly violated, as the press service notes.

Closing pharmacy kiosks will not bear much impact on people's ability to use the services of pharmacies. The development trend of the pharmacy network gives the right to assert that preference is given to the construction of pharmacies in pharmacies. At the end of January of 2013 in Ukraine there were more than 14.9 thousand pharmacies. On the same date of 2005, this figure was only 9.5 thousand pharmacies.







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