Medicinal chemistry

Hundreds of residents of small settlements in Bulgaria continue to be without access to medicines.

According to data from the Executive Medicines Agency, by 2021 the number of pharmacies in our country was 3,300, with a third of them concentrated in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna.

A former pharmacist in Thessaloniki has been found guilty of defrauding a public social insurance fund of €300,000 by issuing fake prescriptions over a three-year period.

A court sentenced the 75-year-old defendant to nine years' imprisonment but suspended the punishment pending appeal and upon the payment of €5,000 bail.

A peculiar trend has come to light among Russian tourists holidaying in Türkiye of purchasing medicines such as painkillers and antidepressants and taking them to their country upon their return as its comparatively cheaper.

Melih Ziya Sezer, owner of one of the oldest pharmacies in Istanbul's Moda district, has died at the age of 90. It has been reported that the 120-year-old pharmacy will become a museum after the death of Sezer, who has been healing for years in the pharmacy he inherited from his father.

A 119-year-old pharmacy that witnessed the last periods of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Turkish Republic continues to help people regain their health at a small, modest shop in Istanbul's Kadıköy district.

She said the monoclonal therapy would be available by the end of 2021

The first pharmacy with social enterprise status in Romania, which is operating in Sangeorgiu de Mures, the Mures County, started being more and more accessed by people who are struggling, due to the involvement of over 20 partners in services' financing.

About 42% of adult Bulgarians, or about 50% of internet users, would like to purchase online medications prescribed by a doctor, shows nationally representative survey of the Market Links agency, conducted among 1,000 people. It's results will be announced in detail today at an online discussion dedicated to e-Healthcare and organized by Capital newspaper.

According to him, only pharmacies, grocery stores and gas stations would remain open. He also points out that the state of emergency has no alternative "otherwise we will burst like a rattle".
He also said that the result can only be a complete prevention of contacts.

There have been big delays lately in the shipping of high-cost medicines, used to treat serious conditions, to patients.