Insufficient availability of medicines for the population in war conditions and their overestimated cost are due to miscalculations of the previous state policy to ensure the pharmaceutical activities of the state, notes in his article for ZN. UA Vitaly Pashkov.

In particular, we are talking about three main areas, because of which the pharmaceutical industry is now sagging.

The first is the gradual, lasting for years, liquidation of state and municipal pharmacies, which reduced the availability of medicines containing narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances..

The second is the tacit state support of the central and local authorities for the monopolization of pharmacy activities and the creation of pharmacy meganets, which led to the minimization of competition and the abuse of a monopoly position..

The third is when the tacit consent of the state to the development of marketing contracts in the pharmaceutical market increased the cost of medicines.

Why, even in the conditions of war, the state continues to finance the personal fortune of the owners of pharmacy chains, read in the article by Vitaliy Pashkov \?