Lack of medicines to become chronic in Hungary

Patients miss more and more medicines from pharmacy shelves. According to the National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition, there are 190 medicaments on the list of missing medicines in Hungary. Among them there are even life-saving ones like meningitis and tetanus immunization vaccines. However, the situation is not without exception, from the United States to Poland service problems occur almost everywhere. Népszava’s report.

Bad decisions and illegal export

To start with, authorities could put an end to the lack of Bexsero, a medicine protecting from B strain of meningitis only for weeks this year. According to Népszava, some medicines are in short supply only because political decision makers regulate the market unwisely. Clearly, producers transport their goods in countries where they can realize bigger profit. Thus, it might happen that

they just call back some very cheap products.

In addition, Lívia Ilku, chairperson of the working group against medicine counterfeiting at the National Board Against Counterfeiting (NBAC) said that illegal export of vendible medicines has increased lately. Clearly, exporting inland supply illegally might lead to time when Hungarians cannot receive their well-known medicines anymore. For example, these can be sedatives, painkillers or even drugs treating the problems of the circulatory system.

Selling medicines abroad from pharmacies forbidden

According to Pharmaonline, even wholesalers are trading between each other. The process is simple: one distributor buys the products from the other one and sells them abroad. Though the Hungarian Supreme Court

abolished selling the supplies of Hungarian pharmacies abroad,