Medication for children with rare diseases
Children's ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked him to approve her initiative.
The Ombudsman proposed to do centralized procurement of medicines for children with rare diseases.
The need to centralize procurement is long overdue, says Kuznetsova.
Cost difference retail sale expensive drugs and wholesale prices for them can also be an error several times the full costTherefore, it is not always convenient for the regions to buy medicines at exorbitant prices.
If you buy medicines for children with rare ailments centrally, it will help not only to save state money and funds from regional budgets, but also to provide the children with much needed medicines. their life depends in the truest sense of the word.
Today in Russia lives more 8 thousand children with rare pathologies.
Only 30% of all Russian regions provide their young people with essential medicines at 100%. The remaining subjects of the Federation declare a budget deficit and lack of funds.
Partially solve the problem, according to Kuznetsova, Russian pharmacists can help, if they have the opportunity produce in our country a number of analogues of expensive foreign drugs.
It was beneficial both for the pharmaceutical industry, and for officials who need to buy medicines, and for the kids themselves, for whom these medicines are vital.
