The Ministry of Health has started the procedures to suspend the parallel export of vaccines, so that the doses necessary for the immunization of children in Romania are ensured
The Ministry of Health has initiated procedures to suspend the parallel export of vaccines, in order to guarantee the necessary doses for the immunization of children in Romania, given the numerous registered cases of measles.
Doses of measles vaccine have already been blocked in warehouses and the Ministry of Health has asked the National Medicines Agency to notify distribution in connection with this decision. The authorities of the sector have started the notification procedures to the European Commission, citing public health reasons, because the limitation of exports can be considered a limitation of the free movement of goods in the European Union.
On the other hand, a legislative amendment, adopted this week by the Chamber of Deputies, as a decision-making body, will allow pharmacies to become distributors of medicines and export them.
After critics claimed that in this way cheap medicines from Romania will be exported abroad, where they will be sold at a higher price, the College of Pharmacists assured that the main activity of the pharmacy is and remains the supply of medicines to Romanian patients and does not mean parallel trade, but the Romanian Association of International Medicines Manufacturers insists that the law will hamper the Ministry of Health’s efforts to ensure that parallel exports do not deprive Romanian patients of necessary medicines.
An online petition has also been launched through which more than 7,300 people have so far asked President Klaus Iohannis not to enact this law.
