“In general, the movement of drug supplies is carried out as planned, without failures and in the same volume,” the report says.

The department noted that the delivery time for pharmaceuticals from abroad was almost halved: medicines arrive in Russia in an average of five to seven days.

Earlier it became known that the Russian government will allocate an additional 1 billion rubles to provide beneficiaries with free medicines.

First Deputy Minister of Health Viktor Fisenko said that Russia is capable of producing about 80% of the entire range from the list of vital drugs.