“Clearly, the increase in drug prices is something that the Government occupies, as in other goods and services that have also had increases, so Commerce only has to alert and set off the alarms and start working on that,” he said.
Along the same lines, the official referred to the position of the laboratories in the face of a possible price freeze, and said in this regard that “agreements are always sought.” “A technical table will be held today and from there they will begin to arrive at the conclusions of what are the steps to follow, and a diagnosis will be made of what is the reason for the excessive increase in many drugs”he added.
The Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, will receive this afternoon the Secretary of Internal Trade, Roberto Feletti, at the headquarters of the health portfolio to analyze the rise in drug prices. The meeting will take place from 15.
In radio statements made on Tuesday, Feletti considered it necessary “some kind of intervention” in the medicine sector in the face of the rise in prices, understanding that “there cannot be essential consumption that does not have some degree of State regulation.”
“We are going to see the state of the situation (of the medicines), but it seems to me that there has to be some kind of intervention because, if not, there is no income policy to be sustained”, dijo Feletti.
The Minister of Internal Trade held a meeting yesterday with Luana Volnovich, from PAMI, which is the main buyer of medicines in Argentina, and for today he plans to meet with Vizzotti to address the issue.
“There cannot be essential consumption such as food or medicine that does not have some degree of state regulation; it cannot be left to the allocation of resources made by the market; nobody says that the companies that provide, produce or laboratories do not have to earn money” Feletti concluded in journalistic statements made yesterday.
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