The Ministry of Health plans to limit the prices of medicines that are not on the list through legal changes, and they also intend to create commodity reserves of medicines due to epidemics, inflation, and shortages, said the head of this department, Vojislav Šimun.
He said this at the press conference after the Government session, when he was asked whether, in addition to new measures for margins, there will also be a reduction in the prices of medicines. Šimun says that the price of drugs is dictated by the size of the market, the interests of large pharmaceutical companies, and that Montenegro is a small market. He stated that the state has already passed a regulation to limit the drugs on the list, so pharmaceutical companies must comply with it.
"The next thing is to amend the Medicines Act to introduce a regulation on the maximum price of medicines for those who are not on the list. There are about 1.500 medicines on the list, and we will try to do the same for those not on the list," he pointed out.
Šimun said that they plan to introduce commodity reserves for medicines in order to supply them with medicines that are essential, in order to protect against inflationary effects in the absence of some medicines, epidemics, other needs...
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