by Editorial board – March 30, 2013 at 10:32 am Those who the Pharmacy Magazine
Italy is a nation in which the drug culture seems to prevail. Word of Luca Pani, general manager of the Medicines Agency (AIFA), who in an interview given to the periodical Omeca, highlighted the lights and shadows of the health system and the use of drugs in Italy.
”We spend 25 billion and 200 million euros a year in class A – he highlighted - . Even from this we can understand that what is needed is a cultural change. And the prescriptions of free choice are worth billions more. To understand, the National Health Fund is worth about 9 per cent of GDP which is equivalent to about 108 billion euros, or the figure that covers the entire