“We have increased the number of types of medicines that we have on the market ... 14.5 thousand different medicines ... We kept fairly stable prices for medicines and vital and market segments throughout the year,” Skvortsova said .

Moreover, according to her, the increase in prices "the maximum went up to 4.6 - 4.7%."

“We did not have such increases that were in a number of other industry segments of the market,” the minister added.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Health launched a digital platform for government procurement of medicines - the Unified Structured Directory-Directory of Medicines.