Georgian pharmacies decrease price for anti-flu drug Tamiflu

Leading Georgian pharmacies have decided to decrease the price of anti-flu medicine Tamiflu, the cost of which formerly ranged between 72-99 GEL.

Aversi and PSP pharmacies have complied with the request to show solidarity with the public and make the medicine more affordable.

Aversi leadership says that the current price for the medicine is 68 GEL. The same price was named by PSP.

Head of PSP marketing department Tornike Guruli says that the pharmacy pays 67,26 GEL for the drug and will sell it for 68 GEL, “which means that we will gain no profit from the sale.”

Many Georgians have posted on social media these days that the price of Tamiflu was “too high”.

The medicine should be taken only after consultation with a doctor.

• See flu statistics for Georgia here.

Thirteen people have died because of the swine flu in Georgia this winter.

The leadership of Georgia’s occupied region of Abkhazia has partially closed the so-called border with Georgia “to avoid the spread of the virus.”

Only those having the “passport of Abkhazia” and people who are employed in the Enguri power station are allowed to enter the region.

The same decision has been made by another occupied region Tskhinvali (South Ossetia), and announced that the "border will be temporarily closed from 8 pm today." 

The best method of protection against the flu is vaccination.