Electronic prescription to be mandatory for psychiatrists starting next week
Prescribing psychotropic medications will only be allowed electronically starting April 11 in Georgia. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Prescribing psychotropic medications will only be allowed electronically starting April 11 in Georgia, the Ministry of Health of Georgia announced on Tuesday.
Doctors will be able to prescribe only generic medications to their patients, without specifying a brand of the drug, in an effort to create a transparent pharmaceutical market and ensure quality and affordable drugs for the Georgian citizens.
Pharmacists will offer customers three cheapest medications from the ‘positive list’ of generic drugs developed by the Health Ministry, with the customers themselves making the choice”, the ministry said.
The change will apply to Group II drugs, including antibiotics, medicines used for cardiovascular diseases, as well as hormonal, endocrine and oncology products.
General paediatricians in Georgia will be able to only prescribe generic medications to their patients, without specifying a brand of the drug, starting next month, Georgian Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili said on Sunday.
Import of medications from the Turkish market has “significantly” decreased the prices of “dozens” of medical products in Georgia, Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili said on Saturday.
From September, a number of drugs in Georgia will no longer be sold over the counter without a prescription.
Georgia has reported 376 new Covid-19 cases, 234 recoveries, and four deaths in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate for the last seven days stands at 1.98 percent. Overall 4,327 remain infected with coronavirus in Georgia.
The prices of about 200 of the most sought-after medicinal drugs on the local market have decreased by 60-70 percent since the launch of the Government initiative to import medications from Turkey, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Monday.
Prices in the Georgian healthcare sector have “risen dramatically” over the last five years, with a 64 percent increase in prices for medication, 35 percent for outpatient services and 31 percent for health insurance, a new study by the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information, a Georgian-based non-governmental organisation, has revealed.
Georgia has reported 237 new Covid-19 cases, 648 recoveries, and two deaths in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate for the last 14 days stands at 1.63 percent. Overall 2,821 remain infected with coronavirus in Georgia.
All patients with spinal muscular atrophy in Georgia will be provided with expensive medicines free of charge under a state initiative announced by the National Health Agency on Monday.