The installation of vending machines for medicines should be the result of free business initiative, it should not be a commitment of the state. Dr. Stoicho Katsarov, Chairman of the Board of the Center for the Protection of Rights in Health Care, expressed this opinion to the BNR.
He was adamant that some of the concerns of pharmacists "have their reasons and should be taken into account when discussing the bill, but this is technical progress that we cannot and should not stop. we stop.
According to him, placing medicine vending machines will create convenience for people:
"There are robotic machines that can dispense medicines, including prescriptions, through them you can make an online connection with a pharmacist at the time of buying a medicine, they can establish in an indisputable way whether it is you you, who buys the drug, can also serve electronic prescriptions. These are steps of technical progress".
There is no absolute argument to prohibit the placement of such type of machines, he stressed.
According to Dr. Katsarov, such machines should not be installed only in small settlements.