Medicinal chemistry

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

As the gradual lifting of the lockdown began on Monday, Government Spokesman Stelios Petsas outlined measures to support households and businesses so that Greeks can "gradually take their lives back,"

Bulgaria's Minister of Health on April 30 issued an order to ban the export of certain medicines for the treatment of diseases of social significance - diabetes, schizophrenia and cancers.

The prices of the drugs which are sold without medical prescription will be regulated. This is envisaged by the Ministry of Health. The document has already been publicly discussed and is due to enter the Council of Ministers today.

Greece's Medical Association (PIS) is calling on the government to cancel a decision that allows pharmacists to receive online training and certification so that they can carry out vaccinations like the flu jab.

Fake hypertension medicine, which promises miraculous results, is being sold on several websites, NOVA TV reports.
 

Pharmacists have complained about herbalist shops ("aktars") in a presentation in parliament over what they said were products being sold obliviously and putting people's lives in danger.

All EU Member States, except Bulgaria and Romania have introduced an European system of traceability for counterfeiting medicinal products over 95 percent, Deyan Denev - chairman of the Bulgarian Organization for the Verification of Medicines said.

Less than 1% are the non-stop pharmacies from all pharmacies in the country, BNR reports. The exact number is not known, however, because no records are kept.

A Labor Ministry bill provides for the payment in 2019 of expired dues in the healthcare sector to suppliers and patients, albeit reduced for non-patient recipients such as pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies, various healthcare suppliers and others, and even patients who have been owed money since before their entry into the National Healthcare Service Organization (EOPYY) - i.e.