Angelo Testa: “Another madness that tramples the rule of law to be able to be treated. In fact, a blackmail to doctors and patients to use a "similar drug" that could have a different active ingredient"
SNAMI - Press release 24 May 2016
MEDICINAL PRODUCTS WITH THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCE
Rome 24 May 2016-Comment by the independent trade union on the cuts on a large number of medicines that would become payment for the sick, "Unless" says Angelo Testa, national president of Snami "the patients do not want to change therapy with a "similar drug ”. All, of course, for a matter of immediate cuts, the all-Italian path of the "hit and run" of today's savings, which does not take into account the costs of tomorrow, especially in terms of public health.
There is an AIFA "determination", the "458" of last March 31 on the theme "Therapeutic equivalence between medicines containing different active ingredients", which makes us understand where we want to end up. The hypertensive patient who for years has been able to control his blood pressure with a given drug will henceforth have to pay for it or else he will have to accept, because he cannot afford it, the "state" drug which perhaps has a different active principle, with the aggravating factor that the following year the same could happen, therefore having to change again and consequently "having to discard" the medicine taken to replace the
receding. Again not with the same active ingredient.
Total madness" denounces the leader of Snami "to be added to the telenovela of the decree cutting exams and to a set of idiocies that would like to prevent Doctors from carrying out their profession and citizens from being able to be treated"
Snami Press Office
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