For cheap life-saving medicine "life" is imminent

08:13:27 January 7, 2016

Source: guangzhou daily

According to media reports, the price of raw materials rose sharply, and inadequate profit factors, west to LAN, for injection erythromycin, protamine and dipyridamole decades of essential medicines and other supplies, is gradually disappearing from the market, the patient can only use other expensive medicine instead. A study of 12 cities in China more than 40 3 armour hospital clinical application situation of sampling survey, national and local supplementary basic medicine has more than 500, of which 342 kinds of shortages.

A lot of cheap drugs, represented by long-acting penicillin are deeply life-saving medicine approved by the people. More and more drug firms are no longer producing cheap drugs, will no doubt make "expensive" problem become more prominent, and even some patients into disrepute. Make the high quality cheap medicine not become extinct in the medical market reform, an important part for the economic benefit is low but the life-saving medicine "lifeline", needs the government, drug companies and hospitals find the greatest common divisor in the game.

Why cheap medicine facing survival crisis? One of the most direct reason is that the production of cheap drugs has become a "bad deal" - for example, ginseng, radix ophiopogonis turned over several times the price of raw materials in recent years, but does not rise in the price of injection, the result is drug firms cut or even shut down gradually; At the same time, under the drug centralized bid procurement system, some medicines of the bid price is very low, "production broke a glass bottle is creditors' money.

Another reason is relatively hidden, profit pressure driven to a hospital on the medicine for the medical point of no return, cheap drugs into the hospital and finally reached the hands of the patient road twists and turns. In medical circulation market, the hospital occupy more than 70% of drug sales, but the prescription power in hand, the hospital in order to obtain more drug addition, tend to purchase expensive medicine and prescription. Hospital significantly lower demand for cheap drugs, dampened the enthusiasm of drug companies.

Effect is good, cheap medicine left out, and the effect of the high price of drugs has become the preferred, is by no means a healthy medical market for its sight. In advancing the process of marketization of medical reform, economic and social benefits cannot be ignored, let drug firms such as cynical, "expensive" problem will only become increasingly serious. Because of this, the relevant functional departments must take reasonable measures of intervention and mediation, stop cheap drugs to disappear in the market.

Foremost, is to be duly cancelled government-led drug centralized bid procurement, return the right of public medical institution of drug purchase and pricing power. Under the current system, the government arranged drug tender policy essence of buyers and sellers normal market behavior into administrative examination and approval. Some drug companies to keep market share, only one thousand to depress the price, the unreasonable mechanism made the "lose" the situation objectively. Now have some places to carry out the relevant pilot work, the pace of the reform can also have a larger.

Second, the functional departments should further governance "medicine for the medical ills. In recent years, the state council and other departments have issued a number of deepening medical and health system reform policy, but hospitals constrained by real interest considerations, medicine for the medical problem didn't get very good solve.

Further promote the reform of medical and health system is the trend of The Times, but, after all, health is an area with a good impression, the market mechanism is not universal. Through appropriate fiscal subsidies and other means, to those who can't live on the market mechanism of cheap life-saving medicine "lifeline", to relieve the cheap medicine dilemma of "shortage of medicine", enhance the well-being of people. One (media commentators Su Jian)