BERGAMO - Single-dose packs for medicines represent "yet another economic rip-off for the consumer and the National Health Service". The president of the Aduc, Vincenzo Donvito, claims it in a note.
More than single-serving packs, explains the consumers' association, the decree should have spoken of “drugs sold in bulk, that is exact with respect to the therapy. It is no news, in fact, that for almost all products the packaging costs and is paid for more than the product itself and the same could also happen for many medicines in single-dose packages, a burden that would be for the individual consumer as well as for the National Health Service".
In summary, concludes Donvito, "the best thing would be to sell the bulk product which, with the necessary health precautions that should not be absent in a pharmacy, would give a sharp blow to waste and prices". As is also the case in other countries of the world, for example the United States.
07 March 2012
CONFUSION AND WASTE
single-dose drugs and health care costs
There's too much confusion about drugs, and it's about time someone did some clarity to avoid waste being added to waste. The single-dose drug from a blister with a single tablet does not cost the pharmaceutical company less than a blister pack of 20 tablets. Indeed, paradoxically, it costs much more because it is one thing to check a pack of 20 and quite another to carry out 20 checks on packs of one, without counting all the administrative part of managing the handling of an object which, containing only one capsule or 20, has the same cost.
But, speaking of waste, what about the easy hospitalizations, the operating rooms made and never used, the thousands and thousands of rules that absorb infinite resources
