North-Ossetian residents use hotlines to complain of excessive drug prices

Facts of overpricing the antivirus preparations sold in the chemists' network can be reported by residents of North Ossetia by means of hotline telephones installed at the pharmaceutical department of the Ministry of Public Health, territorial department of the Federal Supervision Service in Public Health and Social development and the Republic's Prosecutor's Office.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt that this one of the measures aimed at putting things in order in the market of medicinal goods, which saw an essential price growth on available drugs in the last month, when the splash of virus infections and respiratory diseases caused a grown demand for medication.

In this context, Sergey Tabolov, deputy chair of the government of North Ossetia, found it necessary to toughen the control over drugstore managers, "whose actions are causing serious social tension."

Mr Tabolov, who is charge of the social sphere in the government, has emphasized that with the growth of catarrhal and infectious morbidity, more complaints now arrive from residents of the republic on certain negative phenomena observed lately within the chemists' network. "A situation is now possible when a person comes to a drugstore and asks for arbidol or a mask, and they say that arbidol is now 300 roubles per package, while some two weeks ago this drug was 100-150 roubles. As to masks, they are not in stock at all," he said.