Price escalation likely to create acute medicines shortage
Price escalation is likely to create acute medicines shortage in the country, as the government controlled rates remain unchanged, forcing the domestic and multinational pharmaceuticals to gradually suspend production of even life saving drugs such as thyroxin, ventoline inhalers and steroids, experts said on Saturday.
There must be price ceiling for medicines, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said during the opening of the renovated central intensive care ward at the Pirogov Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Aid in Sofia, FOCUS News Agency reporter announced.