There is no way the same activity can be performed for many times less pay. Pharmacies will stop working and we will increasingly see inscriptions that they do not work with the NHS.
This is what Dimitar Marinov, chairman of the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Union, told BNR, commenting on a project of regulatory changes, which foresees that electronic prescriptions for medicines under the Health Insurance Fund can be partially fulfilled in pharmacies.
The idea is that in the absence of a given medication, the patient should look for it elsewhere or wait for its delivery at the same pharmacy within 24 hours.
If only some of a person's prescribed medications are available in the pharmacy, the pharmacist can dispense them immediately and the prescription will be partially filled. The rest of it must be completed within 2 working days, but no later than the date of its validity, the regulatory changes provide.
Medications can be re-dispensed at the same or another pharmacy that works with the Health Insurance Fund. The goal is not to interrupt the patients' therapy, including when the pharmacy does not have enough packages of a given medicine.
"According to the proposed changes, payment for pharmacies remains in the old way, which means that from one prescription, if all the drugs are prescribed, the pharmacy will receive payment for only one prescription, and will release the entire therapy to the patient,", he explained. .
According to Marinov, the motives of the Health Insurance Fund are purely financial - they want to pay less to pharmacies:
"A was never concerned about what difficulties the patient had. If they were excited about this, they would have made these changes by now when they introduced e-prescriptions. At the moment, the NHS's only motive for this thing is to pay less.
On the day of the professional holiday of pharmacists - New Year's Day, in the program ''Something more'' Dimitar Marinov commented on the treatment with herbs, stressing that the life expectancy of people today is many times longer than when the treatment was only with herbs:
"I'm not saying that people shouldn't use herbs, but they shouldn't have too much expectation, and in no case should you rely on herbs alone. The question is not just how long we will live, but how we will live".