Danger bells are ringing in pharmacies: Pharma stocks have melted

With the arrival of the winter months, there has been a drug crisis in pharmacies these days in which upper respiratory diseases such as flu and cold have increased.

While many pharmacies are out of stock of essential medicines such as pain relievers, fever reducers and antibiotics, it has been known that drug stocks in pharmacies are starting to run low.

Manisa Chamber of Pharmacists Chairman Devrim Honey, who brought the drug crisis to the agenda, stated that a great danger lies in wait for public health in the coming days if urgent measures are not taken and the crisis is not prevented. .

‘There is no drug in the warehouses, the stocks are melting’

Stating that the drug crisis is growing by the day, Manisa Chamber of Pharmacists Chairman Devrim Honey drew attention to the fact that hundreds of drugs are currently missing from warehouses and pharmacies.

The Speaker of the House, Bali, made the following statements on the crisis:

“At a time when the number of patients was increasing and there were intense epidemics, the lack of medicines became a threat to public health. Hundreds of medicines do not exist or are far from satisfying the need. The citizen, who comes out of the emergency room at night, calls the pharmacies by phone and goes if there is medicine.

Many antibiotics, antipyretics, drugs that are frequently used during epidemic periods, such as colds, are not available on the market. Even in my own pharmacy, I had to send many patients back just because there were no antibiotics. Currently, there are no medicines in the warehouses and the stocks we have are running out.

I think that in a few days it will be completely exhausted in the hands of pharmacies. Now we have started giving doctors a list that says: ‘We have such and such a drug on our hands.’

Patients are victims, pharmacists are victims, doctors are victims. If urgent measures are not taken, the situation will get much worse. We invite the authorities to go to the nearest duty pharmacy and see the chaos in which we live. Let them see patients walking through the pharmacy with a prescription for a box of antibiotics.”

‘THEY ARE WAITING FOR MEDICINES BECAUSE THE TIME ARRIVES’

Speaking about the main causes of the drug crisis, Chamber President Ballı stated that the biggest reason for the rumors of an increase is that sources and companies do not put drugs on the market and keep them in their hands.

The Speaker of the House, Bali, continued as follows:

“There is a decree called the Pharmaceutical Prices Decree. With this decree, companies produce drugs in small or limited quantities, since the government pays little money for the drugs. This is one of the most important factors in the absence of medication. Another factor is the rumor of a rise in drugs.

Every year, in February, there is a rise in medicines. Companies or stores that expect an increase have the drug in their hands. It does not put medicines on the market or give them in a limited way. Because the next walk awaits.

Another problem is that we do not give importance to the national production of drugs. If we had produced most of these drugs, we wouldn’t be talking about a problem like ‘There is a crisis in medicine’ now.”

‘WE ARE CONCERNED THAT THE EVENT OF VIOLENCE WILL RISE’

Ballı, the head of the chamber, said that it is the most natural right for a patient coming out of the emergency room to have access to medicine, but the patient who could not reach the medicine began to resort to violence.

Noting that they are concerned about the increase in violence in pharmacies in the coming days due to the drug crisis, Bali continued as follows:

“Access to a medicine is the most natural right of the patient. Our task is to ensure the supply of this medicine. However, there is nothing we can do without medication. When we tell a patient who comes to the pharmacy, ‘We don’t have that medicine,’ he starts arguing with us. The patient is right, and we are right. How can we get a drug that doesn’t exist? The patient sees it as if we are authorized in this matter. In public opinion we see that sometimes there are violent incidents in pharmacies. However, our concern is that violence in pharmacies will increase due to the drug crisis that will increase in the coming days. We don’t know how to take action against this.”