“A very serious work is underway on the drug supply program.
And this requires systematic work aimed, on the one hand, at defining the list of those drugs that need prescription leave and those that can be exempted from it.
There is a common position regarding the fact that the population uncontrollably consumes a significant number of antibacterial drugs, which causes drug resistance, "said Nikolai Govorin, deputy chairman of the State Duma Health Protection Committee, in an interview with RT.
In turn, Svetlana Bessarab, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, noted that today some of the drugs are already dispensed exclusively on prescription.
“And this is certainly true.
At the same time, completely limiting the dispensing of drugs without a prescription means putting in an unequal position, for example, residents of remote settlements.
After all, it often happens that people are simply forced to buy repeatedly drugs and self-medicate, because they cannot immediately get to the doctor for an appointment.
I think that the proposal should be worked out by specialists.
But, of course, some of the drugs that can cause serious side effects should be prohibited from being dispensed without a prescription, ”the deputy added.
Earlier, the first deputy chairman of the Public Chamber of the Leningrad Region, Vladimir Petrov, proposed to reduce to a minimum the list of drugs sold in pharmacies without a prescription.