These drugs may not be available in pharmacies in July! The Ministry of Health warns

The Ministry of Health published a new list of drugs and medical devices at risk of unavailability on the territory of Poland as of July 15, 2019. The list includes 324 items. These preparations may not be exported abroad. Check what can be missing in our pharmacies.

According to the so-called the anti-export act, the obligation of provincial pharmaceutical inspectors is to report to the Main Pharmaceutical Inspectorate drugs that are 5 percent missing. pharmacies in a given province. Then the GIF informs the Minister of Health about it. At the beginning of July, the Ministry of Health published another list of preparations, the availability of which may be a problem in the near future.

The list includes 324 products, including measles vaccines, insulin, anticoagulants and antiepileptic drugs as well as drugs used in patients with asthma and schizophrenia.

Our pharmacies may lack, among others:

  1. Clexane – an anticoagulant drug
  2. Euthyrox N – a drug with synthetic thyroid hormone (levothyroxine)
  3. Fragmin – an anticoagulant drug
  4. Humalog – an antidiabetic drug
  5. Letrox – a drug with a synthetic thyroid hormone (levothyroxine)
  6. Novo-Helisen Depot – allergenic extract intended for desensitization
  7. Panzyga – non-specific human immunoglobulin
  8. Privigen – non-specific human immunoglobulin
  9. Symformin XR — lekuhipoglikemizującego
  10. Xarelto – an anticoagulant drug

A complete list of medicinal products, foods for particular nutritional uses and medical devices

at risk of unavailability on the territory of the Republic of Poland as of July 15, 2019.

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