The Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association (PFS) expresses its strong opposition to the decision of the EOF “to lift the ban on exports of 137 preparations in pharmaceutical categories, such as anticoagulants, insulins, antiepileptics, antipsychotics, cardiac and respiratory drugs, in medicines for the osteoporosis and in eye drops for glaucoma, most of which are original drugs that have been proven and repeatedly disappeared from the drug market precisely because of parallel exports, with the result that the Greek patient has been deprived of them”.

Also, as the PFS reports, “with this decision, the ban on the export of children’s vaccines, which had been under export protection for years, was lifted.This decision finds us completely opposed as we believe that the anxiety and insecurity of the citizens will return to ensure their treatment, since we believe that within a short period of time these medicines will completely disappear from our pharmacies, since until now most of them we have been getting in partial supply and in very limited quantities from the pharmacies. We want to believe”, he adds, “that our anxieties and our concerns will be disproved and everything will work, with the aim of ensuring the treatment of patients, regardless of the simultaneous business export activity of a group of entrepreneurs which the government’s decision now allows. Otherwise, that is, if within a reasonable period of time the drugs disappear from our pharmacies and we return to unacceptable and tragic situations of inability to fulfill patients’ prescriptions, the government will be solely responsible.”