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The government has abandoned the idea of selling alcohol-based tinctures according to the recipes, as this would lead to additional burden on insurance companies and hospitals, reports the newspaper “Izvestia” with reference to the official representative Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin Natalia Platonova.
“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 not”, — the newspaper quotes her words.
Platonov said that the arguments about increasing the financial burden on insurers represented by the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation.
“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 drug on purpose,” — write “news” with reference to Platonov.
The Ministry of health, the newspaper reviews are not given.
The issue of banning the sale of alcohol-containing liquids emerged after the tragedy in Irkutsk, where cosmetic “Hawthorn” sickened dozens of people. According to the morning of Tuesday, 77 people died and 123 were injured.