Acting Chairman of the Board of SK-Pharmacy LLP Berik Sharip in his speech said that as of now, the planned shipment of drugs to medical organizations for the month of November is almost fully completed.
“Total in the country as of November 23, medicines were shipped for 84 billion tenge for outpatient drug provision, and for the amount of 82.3 billion tenge - to the inpatient facilities of the country. According to the analysis of the level of consumption of medicines at today's shipment of goods in the amount of 84 billion tenge, written out prescriptions in the amount of 66.9 billion tenge, including recipes provided in the amount of 62.1 billion tenge. The balance of unspent drugs amounts to 21.9 billion tenge, ”B. Sharip said.
The speaker stressed that in his work a single distributor places great emphasis on interaction with the public.
“Now the company has launched a contact center 1439 on issues of providing the population with free medicines. Patients from all over Kazakhstan can call 1439 from any land line for free. Contact center operators provide information on the timing, volumes and planned dates of supply of necessary medicines that are provided free of charge to patients on dispensary registration and receiving outpatient treatment within the guaranteed volume of free medical care, said Berik Sharip.
Also, the head of the single distributor spoke about the launch plans from January 1, 2019 of a single electronic directory on the availability of free drugs in medical organizations. The handbook will be made in the format of an interactive map, where patients themselves will be able to see online all the information on the application of medical organizations for medicines: names and volumes of medicines in the application, their availability at the current moment, and the timing of the following deliveries.