Large pharmaceutical distributors require 100 percent prepayment from pharmacies located in settlements in the war zone which differs from conditions of medicine supplies in other oblasts of Ukraine and worsens the business conditions for these pharmacies, according to the Farmvarta non-governmental organization.
“In June the representatives of Farmvarta visited seven pharmacies in the cities of Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Sviatohirsk. In six of them pharmacists complained of the sharp tightening of supply conditions on the part of distributors, which was not observed in the “pre-war” period. Keeping relatively normal conditions of medical supplies, distributors transferred pharmacies in these regions to 100 percent payment in advance,” Farmvarta Head Denys Shevchenko told Interfax-Ukraine.
He noted said that “in many other regions of Ukraine distributors provide pharmacies with a respite for the necessary 45 days.”
“According to pharmacists from the war zone, wholesalers are simply afraid that military action will start again in the oblasts and they will lose their money,” he said.
