The prime minister instructed the Ministry of Health set up a working group tasked to monitor the situation on the pharmaceutical market. In the future rules of contracts with suppliers of medicines tighten.
We remind you that tenders for the purchase of medicines held in September 2014. Since then, the exchange rate has increased significantly, leading to a large difference between the import price and the value that is specified in the contracts. Because of this, the winners of the tenders could not fulfill their obligations. To avoid crisis, drug prices increased by 7%.
