The MoH is not pressed enough on the pharmaceutical companies that have not left the Russian Federation - the media
According to the publication, without any restrictions in Ukraine continue to sell their drugs KRKA (Slovenia), Servier (France), Berlin-Hemi (Germany), as well as partially Hungarian Gedeon Richter. None of them came out of Russia.
Despite the fact that at the beginning of a large -scale invasion, the Minister of Health of Ukraine Viktor Lyashko appealed to international pharmaceutical companies calling on to ignore Russia, not to conduct business with it and not supply goods, the minister "did not squeeze" and eventually was inconsistent , said in the material.
"Despite the fact that these companies did not leave to work in a terrorist state, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine did not even apply the existing legal mechanism against them. The legislative framework for the sanctions of sponsors of terrorism in Ukraine is enough, but, apparently, there is a lack of political will to press on political will Those who conduct business in the Russian Federation, ”the article said.
The publication reminds that in June 2022 amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Medicines" came into force, which allowed to restrict the circulation of medicinal products, the production of which is located in the territory of the Russian Federation or Belarus. Even if at least one of the stages of production, the pharmaceutical company is carried out in these countries - Ukraine has a legal right to cancel or shorten the term of state registration of such medicines.
Since the adoption of the law has been almost two years. During this time, the restriction of the circulation of drugs related to the Russian Federation was only applied against the Hungarian company Gideon Richter. The Ministry of Health has stopped the registration certificates for 35 drugs of this company. As noted in the material, regarding the rest of the companies, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, headed by Lyashko, even intensifies cooperation with them.
Yes, Minister Lyashko's inconsistency was most clearly manifested in the Casey with Servier. At the beginning of a large-scale invasion, the Minister told pharmaceutical companies that there could be no secret conspiracies with military criminals, but in May 2023, Lyashko signed a "Patron of Servier" Memoraum of Understanding. The company that earns in the Russian Federation and pays taxes there promised to invest in an outpatient clinic in Chernihiv and the Medical Center in Brovary.