People with diabetes, cancer or after a heart attack cannot buy prescriptions. Because cheaper drugs from Poland are exported in bulk and sold with a big breakthrough – writes Gazeta Wyborcza.
This is the aftermath of parallel trade, i.e. the use by pharmaceutical wholesalers of the differences in the prices of the same medications, which in Poland are cheaper than, for example, in Germany and go there.
And as more and more wholesalers wanted to earn such money, large concerns began to limit their supplies and send medicines straight to pharmacies.
Then wholesalers appeared, they began to buy them from pharmacies – and this is already illegal, because the pharmacy can only sell to the patient. Despite this, the practice is flourishing – says GW. And the sick suffer. (PAP)