“We did not experience difficulties, since domestic production picked up and began to produce in sufficient volume practically all the necessary medicines,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
In April, Murashko said that the department sees risks of a shortage of certain drugs for the coronavirus, and limits have been set for 17 drugs.
The Izvestia newspaper wrote that in the first six months of 2020, Russian pharmacies gained 557.9 billion rubles from the retail sale of drugs, which is 13.9% more than in the same period of 2019.