Hawthorn and motherwort are left without a prescription
Officials have refused idea to sell alcohol-containing medicines only on doctor’s advice.
The government decided to abandon the sale of alcohol-containing medicines according to the recipes, have informed “news” in office of the Vice Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, who oversees the alcohol industry. Prescription leave would lead to additional burden on the insurance company.
The Ministry of health, where he studied the issue, considered that limit the amount of vials of potions will be enough to win over the “pharmacy” alcoholism
As stated by the official representative of the Deputy Prime Minister Natalia Platonova, the idea of introducing recipes for alcoholic preparations was refused due to the possible increase in the financial burden on insurance companies and clinics.
Now every visit to the doctor is considered as an insured event. Therefore, the insurance company pays for all doctor visits. Finance thus a prescription-valocordin or hawthorn neclenorazdelnaya Platonopolis, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin
Natalia Platonova found it difficult to specify how much it would cost introduction recipes for liqueurs. According to analyst GK “Finam” Timur Nigmatullin, we are talking about 230-460 million rubles in additional costs to insurance companies per year.
According to representative Alexander Khloponin, the arguments about increasing the financial burden on the insurers represented by the Ministry of health. They decided that limiting the amount of packaging and number of bubbles alcohol-containing medicines dispensed in one hand, will complicate their use as a drink. It does not have a problem with buying drugs from those who use the medication as intended, said Natalia Platonova.
The health Ministry was unable to provide operational reviews.
Recall that after the mass poisoning of people in Irkutsk, a bath concentrate “Hawthorn” Alexander Khloponin instructed to study methods of population protection from the use of a surrogate. Vice-Prime Minister said in particular about the possibility of the sale of alcohol-containing prescriptions in the second quarter of this year.
As previously reported by “Izvestia”, the Ministry of health has already prepared a draft decree on the limitation of the volume of bubbles of alcohol-containing medicines.
Most popular as booze tinctures hawthorn, motherwort, Valerian and others will not be able to trade in the container greater than 25 ml
In a number of pharmacies imposed its own internal limits the sale of alcohol-containing preparations and do not let more than 50 ml of alcohol tinctures in one hand.
— Limited vacation such a range virtually eliminates interest from fans of extreme drinking. In addition, in our network, and many other major networks, you will not find the volume 25-50 ml, — said the representative of the pharmacy network “36,6”.
Deputy Chairman of the public Council under the Ministry of health Alexander Myasnikov believes that most alcohol-containing preparations — “dummy”. Accordingly, in his opinion, they would be impossible to get a prescription.
I don’t know a situation when alcohol the drug would be worth to prescribe. Valokordin, Corvalol have side effects, as they contain phenobarbital is a heavy sedative, which delays proper assessment of the patient’s condition. And all the others do not have effectualised myasnikovskaya the Chairman of the public Council under the Ministry of health
According to the Center of researches Federal and regional alcohol markets, the Russians drink approximately 150-180 million liters pharmacy infusions a year.