Since June 1 this year, the state has cancelled the maximum retail price of some low-priced drugs, with the original intention of increasing the enthusiasm of pharmaceutical companies to produce low-priced drugs and foods and reducing the burden of patients using high-priced drugs. In the past five months since the "loosening of the shackles," this reporter has visited major hospitals, community hospitals, and chain enterprises in Guangzhou and learned that after the "loosening" of the "loosening," the prices of low-cost drugs have risen in response, and the price has risen several times and hundreds of times more. Hospital pharmacy procurement personnel shouted "procurement is difficult" and wanted to buy a kind of medicine, but the pharmaceutical factory did not dare to choose the expensive quotation, and the cheap quotation could not be grabbed. Patients also have new troubles, they used to spend 50 yuan to buy three kinds of drugs, now they can only buy two or even one.
After the government "loosened" the shackles on low-cost drugs, drug dealers on the Guangdong Provincial Drug Electronic Trading Platform ran to participate in the bargaining. "It used to be a uniform price, but now it's different. The two hospitals across the road will encounter different situations when purchasing drugs. Luo Qiao (pseudonym), who is in charge of drug procurement in a third-class hospital in Guangzhou, said.
But what causes hospital pharmacies the most headache is that even if they grab cheap drugs, there may be no drug supply after signing the contract. "Take B multivitamin as an example, 100 capsules rise to 15 or 16 yuan a bottle. We found a bottle of less than 10 yuan, and the contract has been signed for four or five, but in the end it can't be supplied. Luo Qiao said that 49.99 yuan a box is definitely in stock, but the original drug only needs 3 to 5 yuan a box.
Of course, there are occasional refusals and active price reductions. For example, the life-saving drug Di Gaoxin, in the first half of this year, was cut off, and the price of a box rose from more than 10 yuan to 72 yuan.
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The packaging of the medicine box has changed, and the effect of worry has been reduced
The price of low-priced drugs has increased, and community hospitals that sell base drugs with zero plus are the most difficult to do. A community hospital doctor said, "The price of drugs in community hospitals is notoriously cheap, and the people who come to see patients and take medicines are mainly chronic disease elderly people." Medicine has become expensive, and the old people are very sensitive. The original 50 yuan can prescribe three drugs, and now only two or one can be prescribed. "When grabbing drugs, if you find that the original drug price has increased, the pharmacy can only change the drug factory and find cheap drugs." Therefore, "many times the elderly say that the appearance of the medicine box is different, especially the antihypertensive drugs." They asked the doctor to give them medicine back to the way it was. "In this regard, it is difficult for community hospital doctors to explain clearly to patients.
I used to take a few pills, but now I have to take a handful
The impact of drug price increases fermented to patients, and there are also some helpless situations. What makes Liang Bo, who lives in Kangwang Road, cry and laugh is that the anti-inflammatory choleretic tablets he had eaten before, "I used to eat several pills a day, (due to the change of medicines from different manufacturers) now I have to eat a handful." "Liang Bo now eats the amount of anti-inflammatory choleretic tablets three times a day, 12 pills each time," plus some other chronic disease drugs, I feel that the medicine is eaten as a meal. He said that the psychological burden of eating in this way is very heavy.
Subsequently, the reporter learned from the community hospital where he prescribed the drug that the community had previously purchased anti-inflammatory choleretic tablets (100 pills a box) produced by Evergreen with a content of 0.52 grams per grain, and now the drug has risen to 55 yuan a box. In order to alleviate the financial pressure on patients, the hospital can only buy products from other pharmaceutical companies. "Now change baiyun mountain anti-inflammatory choleretic tablets, each grain content of 0.26 grams, 100 capsules only 10 yuan." The number of pills taken by the patient has doubled, but the amount of medicine has not changed, and the price is still cheaper than the original medicine in the pharmaceutical factory. The head of the pharmacy department of the community hospital explained that this is the reason why the patient who originally took 6 pills had to take 12 pills after changing the medicine.