Pharmacy

''The introduction of e-prescription is expected to cost around BGN 12М, Konstantin Kachulev, chairman of the regional pharmaceutical association - Blagoevgrad announced, according to  FOCUS Radio - Pirin.

A sixty-year-old housewife G.M. armed with a plastic gun managed, on two occasions, to rob a pharmacy in the center of Valjevo. She also robbed a pharmacy in Jadar on Kolubara. She took from facilities about 52,000 RSD (~420 EUR), reports Serbian daily "Vecernje Novosti".

The Thessaloniki Pharmacists' Association on Monday warned of serious shortages in a number of important drugs, claiming that each pharmacy on its register sends away an average of 15 customers a day and in some cases has to wait as long as four months to fill their prescriptions.

Cancer patients in Bosnia are enduring long waits for essential medications as public procurement stalls and as the worldwide supply of the older drugs used by Bosnian health services begins to drop, according to local experts.

The high price of new cancer drugs is indefensible and unsustainable, say two of the world’s leading cancer research institutions, who propose a different way to develop them that could sideline big pharma.

Turkey's Social Security Institution (SGK) is planning to distribute imported medicines to patients via the national postal service PTT, as part of austerity measures, daily Cumhuriyet reported on Feb. 2.  

Pharmacists and patients are suffering from medicine shortages in the market as medical firms and depots have allegedly suspended the release of goods amid upcoming price hikes due on Feb. 20, after the Health Ministry's pricing commission announced that it would increase the currency rate for prices of imported medicine.

A man living in the western province of Manisa has applied to the provincial pharmacy unit of a health directorate after cardiac drugs failed to dissolve in his body within 24 hours on suspicion of being fake, which ultimately prompted its transference to the Health Ministry for examination, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Greece's Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP) has announced the hiring of 1,666 people for full-time employment in public hospitals, including positions for nursing staff, pharmacists, chemists, biochemists, midwives and psychologists, among other specialties.

A group of Australian high school students remade the active ingredient for a malaria drug currently at the center of a drug-price controversy.