2023-11-08 03:32:00
The College of Pharmacists of the province of Buenos Aires warned in a statement that hundreds of pharmacies no longer serve with social and prepaid works, interrupting sales of discounted medicationsand denounced that the crisis warned of months ago has already arrived.
The pharmaceutical sector is going through a complex situation due to inflationary inertia combined with the mismatch between the payment of medications with discounts from clients and the collection of the bonus paid by social and prepaid works. Added to this is the difficulty in accessing foreign currency, which generates lack of inputs and puts in risk the normal supply of medicines, the agency stated THAT.
In the statement released on social networks, the Buenos Aires College of Pharmacists reported that since August “it has sent several statements to the media, health and administrative authorities of the province to warn regarding the crisis that might affect the attention of pharmacists throughout the territory. Buenos Aires” and maintained that “That moment has already arrived.”
The lack of medical supplies for diagnosis and treatment stretches
In that sense, the Institution stated that “there are hundreds of community pharmacies that suspended the dispensation of medications due to the discounts (bonuses) imposed by social and prepaid insurance, and their long payment terms” and they assured that the measure “This is not a commercial, political, or speculative maneuver.”
Given the seriousness of the situation, they explained that “In order for our patients to receive their medications, pharmacists must pay for them in less than 15 days”detailing that “The medicine that a person receives today, the social or prepaid insurance will pay for it between 60 and 90 days”for which they indicated that “under these conditions, pharmacists cannot sustain the health service that we provide to millions of Buenos Aires residents.”
Likewise, the College stressed that “this is more than a simple announcement of the emergency that pharmacies are going through, as health agents we will not stop providing services to patients, but We can no longer provide you with the discounts or 100% coverage that prepaid and social works offer.”.
Regarding the steps to follow, the statement reported that “during the week the College of Pharmacists of the province of Buenos Aires will continue to offer alternatives to overcome this situation, but will notify the suspension of the credit to the social works that owe benefits.” and pointed out that “the Buenos Aires pharmacies will fight to continue serving our patients, throughout the year and throughout the province.”
At the same time, members of social and prepaid works are also affected by the decision to doctors and biochemistsincreasingly replicated, to charge a additional copay to compensate for fees they consider insufficient.
Risk of drug shortages
The complex panorama of the sector also affects laboratories that, in parallel, suffer from a shortage of dollars to import supplies and products essential for the normal supply of medicines.
Crisis in medical supplies: entities denounce blue prices, providers in silence and danger of shortages
A source close to the pharmaceutical laboratories confirmed to the agency Argentine News that “reality exists and that is For a month there has been no foreign currency to purchase supplies and pharmaceutical products.” and warned that “the shortage is going to happen very soon” since “if raw materials do not come in and you have between 60 and 90 days to produce it, in the coming months there will be a lack of oncological products, etc.”
Regarding the problem that this represents, he indicated that “the difference with the supplies of a stent, a heart valve or an insulin pump, is that they arrive following 48, 72 hours, they can sell them”, on the other hand, “the You have to manufacture a pharmaceutical product and all the ANMAT regulations apply,” so “From the moment the product enters, whether raw material or packaging material, until the moment of sale, it takes a minimum of 90 days.”
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