“Deficiencies of such extent and duration have never occurred before. And the reason is that the government’s reflexes were too late”
Speaking on the Thessaloniki radio station Status 107.7 and on the show of Dimitris Venieris, the former Minister of Health and member of the Central Committee of SYRIZA, spoke about the “national”, in addition to the international, dimension of the problem regarding drug shortages. Andreas Xanthos.
“And here are the responsibilities that we attribute to the government,” he noted, adding that “the operation of a parallel market that exports cheap drugs from our country to countries in Europe that have much higher prices is timeless and therefore operates in terms of speculation . This has admittedly been a structural, so to speak, problem in the pharmaceutical market in our country in recent years.
But shortages of such extent and duration have never occurred before. And the reason is that the government’s reflexes were too late. That is, he did not intervene in time to stop and prohibit parallel exports, and to control the stocks of pharmaceutical warehouses, to control the obligation of pharmaceutical companies to have three months’ stocks to meet the needs of the country, to give a signal through the EOF and of IFET, that it strongly intervenes in the drug market”.
“What the government did (S.S. regarding the 10 measures announced after a recent meeting), is very late, incomplete, piecemeal and ineffective.”
“We have a crisis and the minister does not call the opposition, not only the official, all the political forces, to be informed, to position themselves, to state their opinion, to submit, if they have, improvement proposals, but he indulges in a vulgar, against in my opinion, mudslinging against the opposition for its criticism, of course because he is personally exposed to this inability to manage the crisis” emphasized the SYRIZA MP.
Andreas Xanthos also pointed out that: “we made a wrong choice in the pricing architecture. Why has ND not changed it three and a half years later? That is the question. Is Mr. Pleuris now complaining that ND maintains a pricing model which he has not changed for three and a half years? Which provides for a repricing only once a year, provides for this sampling let’s say from Europe in the formation of prices, and in any case provided for fluctuation etc. of the lower limit”
Asked if the determination of the price today is the same as the one that was defined during SYRIZA, Mr. Xanthos underlined: “Of course. That’s why I say that this attempt to create an atmosphere that some people favor interests, etc., is vulgar.
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