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Minister Zharko: Citizens should not go to the pharmacy as often as to usual shop

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Minister Zharko: Citizens should not go to the pharmacy as often as to usual shop

According to the Ministry of Health, the Belarusians buy drugs too often.

Citizens should not go to the pharmacy as often as to usual shop. Vasili Zharko, Minister of Health of the Republic of Belarus, stated that in the evening program "Niadzelia" on December 14 while commenting on the complaints of society about department's innovations, BelaPAN reports.

"We have introduced only one new rule - to carry a prescription for one month. We have restricted the self-treatment as we have seen that the citizens go to the pharmacy as often as to a usual shop. There is a big drug store at everyone's house. Neither pharmacist nor someone else but a doctor should prescribe treatment as it is his clear obligation", the Minister said. According to him, it turns out that a doctor can neither control nor prescribe treatment, so it is necessary to make adjustments.

Zharko noted that during the last year drug market in Belarus increased by 170 million. "So, does it mean a so big increase in population? Or have the citizens started to fall ill more often? Neither!”, the Minister of Health stated.

Answering the question about what chronically ill patients, taking the same drug lifelong, for instance, for high blood pressure, should do, the Head of the Ministry of Health explained: "We have two years’ experience for the people with privileges for drugs which allows to write a prescription up to six months, depending on the diagnosis. The same thing relates to the chronically ill. A doctor has the right to write six prescriptions".

According to him, even non-prescription medicinal products must be prescribed by a doctor.

The Minister also said that both public and private pharmacies are directed to sell drugs in extreme cases over the counter but with fixing drug buyer's personal data. "The main issue is that it should not become a system", he noted.

During the interview Zharko without any examinations wrote, at the request of the TV correspondent, a prescription for high blood pressure. The Minister was writing the prescription for ninety seconds.

It should be reminded that on December 9 during the meeting with Zharko Aliaksandr Lukashenka stated that the Ministry of Health should not be afraid of admitting an error on a new order of dispensing pharmacies, if such had been made (the error). "In case you act upon something you should first inform people. It should be done simultaneously! Not after people have lined up and started hitting pharmacies and clinics, Lukashenka said.

It seems to me that your well-known Decree has raised a storm of emotions in our society. People have started complaining that the Ministry of Health should consider conditions of treatment and so on, but not the things it is currently involved in, such as making bureaucratic hurdles", he noted.

Lukashenka said that he had asked some doctors in individual manner to clear the situation as well as he had told the Information and Analysis Center under the aegis of the President Administration to conduct a survey of society. "People are out of scalps! And there is nothing we can counter with it! he underlined.  - For example, why has it been introduced before an acute period of all sorts of viruses, epidemics and illnesses? Doctors have started to work more when hospital discharge. And many other problems have risen.

The right decision has been made but you keep telling me that someone lobbies these processes or does not accept them and the media brings up the issues. I may cast a thought that someone may not accept it. It is a usual thing", Lukashenka noted.

According to him, businessmen, pharmacies' owners and so on "feed the media with their discontent". "Yes, we should take measures, and it is needed to hold the currency in the country and so on. But we should act wisely in order not to make problems for people", the governor noted.

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