Drug shortages are the result of four factors, according to pharmacists, who hope that the new app will bring the situation under partial control. However, the president of the Panhellenic Association of Pharmacies (PEF), Theodoros Skylakakis, appealed to the Health Minister to check very seriously the list of 280 drugs prohibited from parallel exports, as he said 130 of them are not in deficit.
The undersupply from certain companies, the difficulty of finding raw materials due to the production in Asia as well as the well-known “sweeping” in pharmacies and the non-control of the electronic prescription on drugs that are on the export ban list trigger the constant shortages of medicines, according to the PEF.
As Skylakakis explained, the problem is global and does not only concern our country. In fact, Greece is in the 2nd best position with 280 codes in short supply out of 6,500 codes in circulation, when for example countries like Denmark with 3,000 drug codes in circulation 860 are in short supply.
What people should know is that antibiotics are not exported. The problem is the lack of raw materials such as amoxicillin, which is the main active substance for certain drugs. Meanwhile, there is a problem with the new generation diabetic drugs that are also given for other treatments as well as drugs for assisted reproduction.
