Monday, March 18, 2013

Mark-up on drugs in Ukraine is 480%

In Ukraine, the drugs at a premium, which is at an average of 480%, reported at the Ukrainian Institute of Public Health, sold. According to the Institute of Public Health, the new data from the study of the Ukrainian pharmaceutical market were obtained. It turned out that the prices for some drugs in Ukraine exceeds the cost of the 9-fold, despite the fact that the average global margin of 2-2.5 times allowed. This is due to the sale of drugs that were not in the Ukraine as well as from the list of 18 thousand drugs around 4500 do not have adequate testing were registered, but admitted. Sale, at the Institute of Public Health It also shows that tripled in the past six years, the use of drugs among Ukrainians. According to the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, one in eight residents is not satisfied with their health and make sick. Experts report that in the past 10 years, Ukraine has lost 4 million people, but most of all fears is the high mortality among men. In addition to the lives of Ukrainians occupy the second lowest in Europe, just ahead of Russia.

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