The Health Fund today started signing contracts with 112 private pharmacies, where citizens will be able to pick up prescription drugs from March 1, said the Fund's director, Kenan Hrapović.
According to him, next week, citizens will be informed in detail about which pharmacies these are, how they can pick up medicines and the principles of functioning of the new model between the Fund and private pharmacies.
As he said, citizens will be able to pick up medicines in parallel at 45 Montefarma pharmacies and in private pharmacies.
"The management fund of the Health Fund has selected 112 pharmacies with which it will sign a contract on picking up prescription drugs, together with Montefarma pharmacies, and the implementation of the project will begin on March 1," stated Hrapović.
He said that the conditions that those pharmacies had to meet were quite rigorous.
Hrapović explained that the money they received from the Government for financing and procurement of prescription drugs will be distributed to private and Montefara pharmacies
"On a monthly level, we will have certain restrictions and I appeal to the doctors who prescribe medicines to take care of the monthly consumption, that is, the prescription of medicines", said Hrapović.
He also appealed to the citizens not to ask for a larger amount of medicine than what they need for treatment, because, as he said, there will be enough medicine.
As stated by Hrapović, the Fund will conduct daily, weekly and monthly control of private pharmacies through invoices and "that way we have to fit in the funds that have been approved for this year".
He said that the Government adopted a new list of medicines on the proposal of the Ministry of Health.
"15 new drugs were included, 27 drugs were removed from the list, so that in total we have 537 forms of drugs that are on the new list," Hrapović explained.
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