Insulin centralized procurement has been fully implemented in 31 provinces

  Today (July 4th), the Shanghai Pharmaceutical Sunshine Purchasing Network issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the City's Sixth Batch of Nationally Organized Centralized Drug Procurement (Insulin Special)", announcing that Shanghai will implement the sixth batch of national centralized procurement from now on. (Insulin special) selected results.

So far, centralized insulin procurement has been implemented nationwide.

  It is reported that the special centralized procurement of insulin produced the selection results in November last year.

In the first year of this centralized procurement, the purchase demand was 210 million pieces, involving an amount of 17 billion yuan. The average price of the selected products dropped by 48%, and the highest drop was 73%.

It is estimated that after centralized procurement, the cost of insulin can be saved by about 9 billion yuan every year, which will further reduce the burden of medication for more than 10 million patients who need long-term or even lifelong insulin injections.

  (CCTV reporter Zhang Ping and Zheng Yizhe)