Kazakhstan to introduce new system of purchase and distribution of medicaments

ASTANA. January 30. KAZINFORM /Bauyrzhan Mukanov/ Purchase and distribution of medicaments will be held by a unified system from July 1, 2009. Kazakh Minister of Healthcare Zhaksylyk Doskaliyev has announced it at the Ministry?s Collegium; Kazinform reports.

?This scheme will ensure quality and safety of medicaments by obligatory certification of all batches of medicaments in the state laboratories. Medicaments will become more available?, Z.Doskaliyev said. ?One of the advantages of this scheme is decrease of purchase prices?, the Minister noted. Z.Doskaliyev considers that introduction of the system of the unified distribution will raise efficiency of planning pharmacological support and strengthen control over turnover of medicaments in hospitals. It will give additional impulse to development of the domestic pharmaceutical industry.